Example sentences of "me as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 2 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 3 | At first it was only Michael that was going but on hearing that we were hoping to marry they decided to have me as well . |
| 4 | A mixed feeling of excitement and fear flowed through me as the idea took control . |
| 5 | Almost as many people turned up for me as had for Youngman . |
| 6 | ‘ All I want to do is get to the bottom of this , ’ she assured me as we entered her office . |
| 7 | If you have already thought up a sensible solution to my problems , that puts you one up on me as I was then , because I was completely flummoxed by the whole thing . |
| 8 | Jenny asked me as we got up to leave . |
| 9 | This applies just as much to me as it may do to you . |
| 10 | I am thinking about my spectacles lying on the desk before me as I write . |
| 11 | I began to alter my standards of hospitality , offering them my pale , cold face when their music grew louder , when they began laughing among themselves and did n't take the trouble to explain their jokes to me as they had before , or repeat their words until I understood what they were saying . |
| 12 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 13 | A manic grin leered down at me as I struggled to bridge the crux . |
| 14 | I dare to go further : some of the most gifted and earnest among my contemporaries — I think of Edgar Dowers in the United States and Geoffrey Hill in the United Kingdom ( though I except Hill 's wonderful Mercian Hymns ) — fall short of pleasing me as they might , because they seem not to have followed this rule of thumb , and their language is habitually for my taste a shade , or several shades , too grandiloquent or ‘ literary ’ . |
| 15 | Prior to the match , Evert had told the Australian captain , Wendy Turnbull , to tell her No. 1 player , Anne Minter , ‘ that if she can beat me as she did in Toronto ( in August ) , then she can beat Manuela Maleeva ’ . |
| 16 | Yet the central thrust of what I was trying to say still strikes me as having some validity . |
| 17 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 18 | For all that , on Queenie 's death he was inconsolable : ‘ no human being has ever meant as much to me as she ’ . |
| 19 | The Frenchman waved to me as the jeep sped away down the road . |
| 20 | German flares were lighting up the sky behind me as I hurried along the road , keeping close to the houses and in their shadows as much as possible . |
| 21 | He turned to look at me as I approached , then carried on tending to the cows . |
| 22 | He went back to tending his cows , and , looking at me as he bent down to pick up his bucket , he said , ‘ I am Monsieur Saulnier . |
| 23 | ‘ See you later , Boyo , ’ he shouted after me as I set off , rifle over my shoulder , through the trees in the direction of Brigade H.Q |
| 24 | Pat finished his cigarette and , looking at me as he rose to his feet , said , ‘ Piper , I believe it is all going to happen today . |
| 25 | I scrambled to my feet a little sheepishly as one of the Officers had turned round and was observing me as I approached . |
| 26 | Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft . |
| 27 | My dancing partner and her parents turned up , a little bit embarrassing for me as my French was very limited as far as conversation was concerned . |
| 28 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 29 | The Corporal stood and glared at me as I very swiftly made my exit through the door , pausing briefly to pick up my rucksack and bagpipe box . |
| 30 | Later , in The Use of Poetry , he links in one sentence Fitzgerald and Buddhism : ‘ I am not a Buddhist , but some of the early Buddhist scriptures affect me as parts of the Old Testament do ; I can still enjoy Fitzgerald 's Omar , though I do not hold that rather smart and shallow view of life . ’ |