Example sentences of "[prep] i [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ After the defeat at Bramall Lane they had the biggest hammering they 've had off me for a long time . |
2 | They do n't pay me much , but I 'm looking about me for a good opportunity . |
3 | her used glass for me at a private view — |
4 | A part time post was created for me at a busy hospital 40 miles from home , and the arrangement worked very well . |
5 | ‘ She has worked for me for a long time . |
6 | ‘ Mr Tunney , ’ he gasped — mistaking me for someone else ? as he reached for me with a flailing hand . |
7 | ( What kind of a rest is it meant to be for me with a querulous adolescent ? |
8 | The reader in men and masculinity from Bradford University conjured up images for me of a muscular man walking in with a few four-packs of larger under his arms ready to address BASW delegates . |
9 | I once had to have the gnomic response of one respected editor of a major journal interpreted for me by a senior colleague . |
10 | The world spread out for me in a new map of associations and sensations . |
11 | ‘ I 'd be scared of them coming after me with a big shotgun . |
12 | It could have been any one of many faces opposite me in a fashionable Italian restaurant , a woman heavily scented , expensively ajingle . |
13 | Each time I saw you coming dancing towards me along a sunny street , moving lightly on your toes like a boxer , with your slightly duck-toed run that I , a turned-out-toes walker , found so male and so sexy , my heart jumped in my throat and I wanted to run towards you and throw myself into your arms . |
14 | Sergia interrupted , moving towards me with a stern gaze . |
15 | From one of those shadow-pools a small , semi-spherical object came sailing towards me in a high looping arc . |
16 | People drifted in and out , not acknowledging one 's presence , and my only meeting with Joan 's mother was when she rushed past me with a vague smile and a tennis racquet . |
17 | ‘ I am , ’ Piers agreed , ‘ although you can continue to think of me as a glorified carpenter if you like . ’ |
18 | And because , as I say , of my conventional background there seemed at the time a tendency to think of me as a reactionary young man . |
19 | ‘ But this is the point where you stop thinking of me as a frustrated lover , or even as just a man . |
20 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
21 | The road became narrower and ran ahead of me like a twisting silver elver . |
22 | ‘ Male fans ask for pictures of me in a bathing costure ’ |
23 | Men have been known to write and ask for a picture of me in a bathing costume . |
24 | They have piled up beneath me like a geological section . |
25 | Rationing of sweets , like food and clothing , was continued for several years after the war was over , and people like me with a sweet tooth used to bemoan the meagre ration of sweets and chocolate we were allowed . |
26 | There 's a bloke behind me with a big suitcase , reading a newspaper . |
27 | She 'll stay with me for a long time . ’ |
28 | So it 's a thing that stayed with me for a long time . |
29 | Felipe sat with me for a long time . |
30 | 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 . |