Example sentences of "[prep] i in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was good at sewing , and managed to make some clothes for me in the thinnest material available . |
| 2 | He thinks there 's a part for me in the new play at the Queen 's . ’ |
| 3 | You have always shown your love for me in the best way you knew how . |
| 4 | Hopefully it will do the same for me in the Welsh mountains , and enable me to walk onto specific grid bearings and find some ancient markers . |
| 5 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 6 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 7 | It was from KeriKeri I started the two-hour flight in a 152 that took me over Hokianga Harbour on the Tasman Sea , along Ninety-Mile Beach to the northernmost tip of New Zealand , and right above a school of dolphins swimming below me in the crystal-clear Pacific waters of Doubtless Bay . |
| 8 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 9 | I started sweating when they called out the bloke ahead of me in the high jump . |
| 10 | Erm I will take those notes away with me in the strictest confidence , go through them erm work out some recommendations , how you could hit the goals that you will go for at the end of the day . |
| 11 | That you are British , blonde and pretty and clever , and you work with me in the medical centre . |
| 12 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 13 | Bauthumley , who believes God speaks directly through him , offers his own writing as an imitative model to others ‘ that travell with me in the same birth ’ . |
| 14 | Me and my missus are actually going out with me in the next couple of weeks , |
| 15 | Well , Herman Schrijver says he will hire a car when the warm weather comes and drive her down to lunch with me in the Green Belt … . |
| 16 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 17 | I was crouching just feet away , terrified that at any moment one of the massive males would charge into me in the desperate struggle . |
| 18 | THE small , middle-aged woman sitting alongside me in the rowdy ringside throng did not look particularly important . |
| 19 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 20 | They 'd taken my girlfriend away from me in the real world , why must they take away her picture ? |
| 21 | He would lead me through small flocks of goats , or to where the traffic was worst , and then briefly hide from me in the narrow alley-ways or the open shops . |
| 22 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 23 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 24 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |
| 25 | Why did n't you show it to me in the first place ? |
| 26 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 28 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 29 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 30 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |