Example sentences of "[prep] me 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference , rather than the similarity , between her situation and mine . |
| 4 | Not for me the reckless , romantic heroisms that make obituary writers reach for phrases like ’ untimely end ’ and ’ cut down in his prime ’ . |
| 5 | More than any other sound , more even than the grunting roar of a lion , their howling evokes for me the African night . |
| 6 | Duval agrees : ‘ For me the real issue is programme choice , in the sense of what is actually scheduled . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When he was hot , he was hot , but for me the whole thing was not so good . |
| 10 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |
| 11 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 12 | As I say , for me the important thing is the play , not any feminist axe-grinding . |
| 13 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 14 | For me the light alone is enough . ’ |
| 15 | She was immediately recognisable , though she 'd had the scarf on as she sped past me the only other time I 'd seen her . |
| 16 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 17 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 18 | ( 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 . ) |
| 19 | No like me the opposite direction . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | After a hundred yards or so I could see behind me the whole cliffed extent of the headland , and the house . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | I could hear the talk at the next table , the staccato clatter of Mexican , and behind me the piercing voice of an American woman . |
| 24 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 25 | And I use the word ‘ responsibilities ’ rather than ‘ pleasures ’ because whereas no one had ever discussed with me the possible pleasures of sexuality , the responsibilities of adulthood had been habitually stressed , both at home and at school . |
| 26 | I carry with me the tattered remnants of this psychic structure : there is no way of not working hard , nothing in the end but an endurance that will allow me to absorb everything by the way of difficulty , holding on to the grave . |
| 27 | I was to have not only a tape-recorder but a minder as well to guide me through the intricacies and , I imagine , the possible legal hazards of broadcasting such an item ; he and his lady assistant would arrive and spend a day with me the following week . |
| 28 | Well , we just got talking and she agreed to have dinner with me the following night . |
| 29 | The little B&B down by the harbour was far more in keeping with the thread of the sea that had kept with me the whole day 's travel from west to east coast Scotland . |
| 30 | He came with me the whole way of my round south of the Court . |