Example sentences of "[prep] me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
| 2 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 3 | I understand all right , and if you think you 're going to live off me for the rest of your life you 're mistaken . |
| 4 | Two you had off me for the fete . |
| 5 | I was due to attend a meeting with several other women whom I knew and felt in sympathy with , and when I arrived there , the weight of my unhappiness just rolled off me like an unwanted burden . |
| 6 | It was very tiring and actually the perspiration just used to be dropping off me by the time I got into the flat . |
| 7 | It was a meadow ready for cutting and suddenly I realized that it was high summer , the sun was hot and that every step brought the fragrance of clover and warm grass rising about me into the crystal freshness of the air . |
| 8 | ‘ Since this campaign began , not a day has passed without them trying to spin some story or other about me to the local paper . |
| 9 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 10 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 11 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm insulted that he 's even talking about me on the tape — and I 'm sure the other players he 's mentioned feel the same . |
| 13 | Fortunately I do n't have to do the really dangerous stuff , buteven backstage in the wings I did have a few things falling about me on the last day in Manchester . |
| 14 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 15 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
| 16 | He seemed to have forgotten about me in the middle of his sentence . |
| 17 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 18 | " Everything written about me in the law of Moses and the prophets and the psalms must be fulfilled . " |
| 19 | Is everyone talking about me in the shack ? |
| 20 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 21 | I feel their flames go through me to the tower . |
| 22 | and let the breath flow through me in a song |
| 23 | He stared at me , and his eyes went through me like a trident through a fish . |
| 24 | Now , my happiness curls through me like a vine . |
| 25 | ‘ Something instantly circulated through me like an essence of fire , and striding with wider steps I determined to go at once for my model , to begin tomorrow and to make the most of my actual situation . |
| 26 | I have said I understand little ; at that moment I understood nothing , and that terrible lack ran through me like an electric shock . |
| 27 | That was the attraction for me as a director . ’ |
| 28 | But my education made things harder for me as a soldier , paradoxically , for I thought too much and questioned the wisdom of those in command . |
| 29 | For me as a child , Glasgow was its buildings ; the city was physically oppressive in a way that is painfully memorable . |
| 30 | But in fact there was very little apart from discussion at the end , that was actually relevant to voluntary services , it was about local government reorganization which was very interesting , for me as a parish councillor . |