Example sentences of "[prep] i the [adj] [noun] " 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 | ‘ Oliver Craddock wrote this down for me the first time I saw him and I 'd forgotten all about it , ’ he said . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The story of Ruth illuminates for me the unbridgeable difference , rather than the similarity , between her situation and mine . |
| 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 | His poem exemplifies for me the many wonders and the brilliant light of the transcendent ; and also the unity of our soul as it basks in the warmth of that light . |
| 8 | Elegy ( E2 5c ) on the Lower Tier of the Roaches is for me the finest slab climb on gritstone . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When he was hot , he was hot , but for me the whole thing was not so good . |
| 12 | So for me the three things were the structured thought patterns plus the arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 13 | So for me the three points were the Aldershot method er the importance of understanding arousal and the need for audience contact . |
| 14 | For me the transcendent landscape has taken on the aspect of patterned fields , or small patches of flower beds . |
| 15 | For me the high point of the week at Sunningdale was my first chance to commentate for the BBC . |
| 16 | As I say , for me the important thing is the play , not any feminist axe-grinding . |
| 17 | ‘ For me the important thing was winning the match , the money is very much the second thing . |
| 18 | I , that , for me the hardest thing to do is example is study Spanish . |
| 19 | You drove past me the other day when I drov , was it you ? |
| 20 | And a moment ago I had in front of me the relevant paper . |
| 21 | ( 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 . ) |
| 22 | Only later , I told the now somewhat quivering Principal , only later , when Rosa had gone , did it come to mind that one or two of the other girls had made of me the same enquiry over the past twelve months . |
| 23 | No like me the opposite direction . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I could hear the talk at the next table , the staccato clatter of Mexican , and behind me the piercing voice of an American woman . |
| 27 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 28 | ‘ You were pretty fed up with me the other night — on the phone . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |