Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] first " in BNC.
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1 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
2 | Perhaps they were afraid of me at first . |
3 | I thought they were joking with me at first . |
4 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . ’ |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
10 | 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 . |
11 | So you know , I mean that 's that 's the er So I 'll see what Kevin comes back to me with first . |