Example sentences of "[prep] i the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For me the European theatre is where it 's at — a physical art rooted in the circus . ’ |
| 2 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 3 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 4 | For me the chief attractions of this programme were the two pieces by Hans Gàl , whom I knew towards the end of his long and fecund life ( he died in October 1987 , at the age of 97 ) . |
| 5 | The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference , rather than the similarity , between her situation and mine . |
| 6 | Not for me the reckless , romantic heroisms that make obituary writers reach for phrases like ’ untimely end ’ and ’ cut down in his prime ’ . |
| 7 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 8 | Duval agrees : ‘ For me the real issue is programme choice , in the sense of what is actually scheduled . |
| 9 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 10 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) on the Lower Tier of the Roaches is for me the finest slab climb on gritstone . |
| 11 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 12 | His daughter fed him on tins of baby food , which again confirmed for me the sour joke of existence and the particular contemptibility of this old man . |
| 13 | When he was hot , he was hot , but for me the whole thing was not so good . |
| 14 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 15 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 16 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |
| 17 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 18 | As I say , for me the important thing is the play , not any feminist axe-grinding . |
| 19 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 20 | I , that , for me the hardest thing to do is example is study Spanish . |
| 21 | For me the light alone is enough . ’ |
| 22 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 23 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 24 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 25 | ( If my private test convinces me that I do not want what you think I want , I assume error in your reading of me the public tests , which I must expose or leave you unanswered . ) |
| 26 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 27 | No like me the opposite direction . |
| 28 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 29 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 30 | I had a determined attitude , a few months ' really hard winter training under my belt and a driving ambition to put behind me the previous year 's exit in the opening round . |