Example sentences of "[prep] i [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I tried to come off a few times , y'know , off me own bat , like , but there was too much of it around .
2 I mean you can still get a reference off me old company which er you know the London
3 ‘ New bugs are wets and weeds their mummies blub when they kiss them goodbye while seniors such as me hem-hem stand grimly by licking their slobering chops .
4 She said , ‘ Then tell me , my Lord , how many times you have thought about me this day . ’
5 Having to find out about me this way . ’
6 What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ?
7 One more fing I like about me ole mucker Ingrams : 'e 'ates young people .
8 Trainer David Elsworth said : ‘ He won for me first time last season and perhaps he is a horse who does n't want running too often . ’
9 Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow .
10 ‘ I remember when Jason first came and auditioned for me one day after school in his school uniform , very hot and perspiring , and a typical teenage schoolboy who had just run to the audition .
11 He designed that look for Susan Foreman , and indeed arranged to open his shop specially for me one evening so I could be ready for the production day next morning .
12 James never did anything for me that way , Chrissy , never once .
13 I do n't know about you , but for me that discovery was an overwhelming experience which brought tears .
14 At least I do n't think so , ’ I told her , but she just smiled and told me she had no further use for me that day and to call the next day which was to be a school holiday .
15 She changes for me each day — she is blonde and she is dark , young and mature , fat and thin — it does n't matter .
16 ‘ Nah , she did n't do much for me Good figure and that , but … ’
17 ‘ I went home and got on with my work expecting them to come for me any day or night . ’
18 that 's hard job to find out what to do it is for me any rate
19 Second , Arabic negative particles come in front of the verb , so that an expression such as I had nothing against becomes literally ‘ not was for me any objection ’ , thus pushing the ‘ me ’ further away from thematic position .
20 All afternoon Fiona kept me close by her side , looking around for me any time I fell a step behind .
21 She has a part of me inside her , and I know she will come for me some day .
22 ‘ Any chance of your taking a video for me some time ? ’
23 Could you sort them out for me Batty lad , you 're hard .
24 While we 're promoting my own show and blowing my own trumpet , er this afternoon Jenny is on for my for me this afternoon .
25 ‘ You can do an errand for me this afternoon , McAllister , ’ she said .
26 You will be wondering , what is the message of Christmas for me this year in the face of this or that problem ?
27 Those Yids , they set far more stock by this Christmas nonsense than most of us — damn' nuisance — God , I 've missed having you to do my shopping for me this year .
28 This poem , though in appearance and make-up is different from other Owen work it still carries the same anti-war message , but for me this poem is the best of his poems because of its subtly hidden anti-war message and meaningful ambiguity .
29 ‘ It was just lucky for me this gentleman was passing . ’
30 It has been a very difficult choice for me this time . ’
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