Example sentences of "me [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Three years of being a member of the Campaign Team at AI had not prepared me for seeing human rights abuses first hand . |
2 | In which case forgive me for writing as I have done . |
3 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
4 | Nothing had prepared me for that . |
5 | He came round to my side , stood beside me for a while , looking , puffing . |
6 | For example , I have never received a personal letter following my stay to thank me for my custom . |
7 | It was through a family connection , I think — anyway , as expected , she never had to ask me for a reference . |
8 | Blame me for becoming poor if you like — I admit , I blew it — but the responsibility for the way our society treats its poorer members is not exclusively mine . |
9 | Despite this , at lunchtime Kathleen presented me with four hours ' pay and pressed me for a few more details to help her with her enquiries . |
10 | Would you like to come and sit out the back with me for a minute ? ’ |
11 | Then last year , everything just started running against me for some reason . |
12 | And they ask me for hardly any rent , which is the other nice thing about it . ’ |
13 | In some ways I feel her peculiar dilemma parallels my own for she described her stance as one which distanced her from the classical anthropological mode , creating a ‘ memorable adventure ’ , which she claims , ‘ has marked me for life ’ ( ibid. 22 ) . |
14 | I am half-pissed and brilliant , Francis takes me for egg and chips and strong tea and tells me to give it up . |
15 | Forgive me for assuming my role of dyke agony uncle once more , but really , lovey ! |
16 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
17 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
18 | Pardon me for thinking they were important , pardon me for feeling beautiful and lyrical , pardon me for loving you . |
19 | What do you take me for ? ’ |
20 | ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’ |
21 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
22 | Offering the blond English boy — the one I was throwing water at now — half my lunch , and sitting there full of gratitude because he smiled , because he liked the taste of the piece of chicken dipped in cumin and saffron and he had smiled at me for the first time . |
23 | You 've been with me for a whole week now and you might just as well have been a girl , or a boy without balls . |
24 | What the bloody hell did you go an' marry me for if you wanted to go to London ? |
25 | It joined me for the rest of the holiday , much to the annoyance of my fellow passengers . |
26 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
27 | ‘ They will find out I 've done nothing and flog me for it . ’ |
28 | I write this letter in the hope that someone will explain the errors of my ways , forgive me for mixing relativistic and Newtonian physics , and enlighten me . |
29 | Two reasons strike me for this . |
30 | My rich , dark Trappist practically knocked me for six at lunchtime , while a deep red cherry beer , Kriek , tasted like alcoholic cough mixture . |