Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 2 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 3 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 4 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |
| 5 | I thought they were joking with me at first . |
| 6 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 7 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 8 | Similarly , through Lata 's sister 's marriage to Pran you 're led into the world of politics and the subject of land reform , which sounded dull to me at first but became much more interesting as I got into it . ’ |
| 9 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 10 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 11 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 12 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 13 | Zimberalda … you 've come back to me at last ! ’ she snorts , wiping the tears from her eyes . |
| 14 | It seems to me of first importance to confront this kind of question realistically and not to discredit one 's cause by refusing to admit that the clash exists . |
| 15 | So you know , I mean that 's that 's the er So I 'll see what Kevin comes back to me with first . |
| 16 | Because , I mean , I , I 've , I 've got three weeks holiday owing to me from last year . |
| 17 | Mr Parsons looked down at me at last , and I could see a different embarrassment replacing the first as he met my ironic eye . |