Example sentences of "[prep] me [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet . |
2 | Septimus brought it down for me one Christmastime when I was just a girl — before the last war anyhow . |
3 | ‘ 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | It finished for me three years ago . |
6 | ( The little road going off to the left here , towards Host a , I certainly do n't advise ; it scared the wits out of me one afternoon , so steep , narrow and broken was it ) . |
7 | I love the Christmas services , but I did n't argue with him because I know he means to get rid of me one way or another . |
8 | In front of me five youths , age seventeen , leaning back , arms spread , cool , sniggering and making jokes , pretending not to be frightened . |
9 | She 's only been with me six weeks . |
10 | ‘ Listen boy , ’ he said , addressing the son and ignoring Matilda , ‘ seeing as you 'll be going into this business with me one day , you 've got to know how to add up the profits you make at the end of each day . |
11 | Well the the or residual element er if you take out the I have n't got this figure actually to in this little table I 've got here but if you bear with me one moment . |
12 | ‘ So tell me , in the closet with me one moment , out for dinner with another man the next . |
13 | Today I have with me two ladies who have embarked on a career in science . |
14 | I shall have with me two clerks , and , of course , yourself . |
15 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
16 | Things were n't really right until Marian moved in with me two years ago . |
17 | ’ My husband asked them why they did n't take a statement from me four years ago . |
18 | You owe me , Mr Scott , except that nothing can ever compensate for what you stole from me six years ago . ’ |
19 | I 'll say this , if he 's done it , he 's done something more than you hulks 'ave ever done ; it 's been left to me two lasses to breed . |
20 | I just called him and explained my interest and he sent them to me two days later . ’ |
21 | Will the Prime Minister reconsider his answer to me two weeks ago on mortgage repossessions ? |
22 | The reality of this ignorance was brought home to me one lunchtime when a fellow patient , learning of my condition , asked with a look of horror whether I thought he had cancer . |
23 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
24 | ‘ It does n't matter to me one way or the other . |
25 | ‘ There 's not a man or woman here who does n't know what happened to me one night ten years ago ! |
26 | She came over to me one night and she asked me for a lift . |
27 | ‘ Someone will have to explain this game to me one day , ’ I said , mournfully . |
28 | It was my philosophy professor , a native of the Antilles , who recalled the fact to me one day : ‘ Whenever you hear anyone abuse the Jews , pay attention because he is talking about you ’ . |
29 | I had a young fellow come up to me one day — he had eighteen months ' service . |
30 | Superintendent said to me one day , ‘ You do n't like this fellow very well . ’ |