Example sentences of "[prep] i [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the sons had done the right thing and had taken the pressure off me for a while . |
| 2 | ‘ So how about me for a mate ? ’ |
| 3 | see through me with a voice of rival , rival calm when she called me in for tea , have a go |
| 4 | and let the breath flow through me in a song |
| 5 | Now , my happiness curls through me like a vine . |
| 6 | He stared at me , and his eyes went through me like a trident through a fish . |
| 7 | For me as a child , Glasgow was its buildings ; the city was physically oppressive in a way that is painfully memorable . |
| 8 | WHAT began for me as a culture shock 25 years ago , has now transmuted into an enduring sense of sorrow and frustration . |
| 9 | ‘ When I bought this house and insisted she move in with me she took the path of least resistance and agreed , although even then if I 'd had the wits to see them all the signs were there that although she relished my role as provider she cared very little for me as a person . ’ |
| 10 | But my education made things harder for me as a soldier , paradoxically , for I thought too much and questioned the wisdom of those in command . |
| 11 | ‘ Obviously , this is a new experience for me as a manager . ’ |
| 12 | So therefore was there anything for me as a consumer go along to the theatre , have a back programme that has been sponsored by Hydro Electric to use the bad example . |
| 13 | The only things the Tories did for me as a businessman was to empty a lot of factory space which made it easy to buy up . |
| 14 | For me as a designer , the feel is similar to rayon , with lustre and drapeability . |
| 15 | But in fact there was very little apart from discussion at the end , that was actually relevant to voluntary services , it was about local government reorganization which was very interesting , for me as a parish councillor . |
| 16 | That was the attraction for me as a director . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ When the lawsuit was beginning , before he could possibly have known about it , he wrote this down for me on a bit of paper . ’ |
| 18 | Do you want to just hold that on there for me for a second . |
| 19 | and a cup of coffee and a cigarette , and I always do that but this day I was so tired after the doing the garden , both gardens like and fucking weeding them all and doing everything else and brushing out the back and doing I said to him for fuck 's sake do them dishes for me for a change William would you I said , so I got er got myself in the bath said I 'm away to bingo , so William 's gone out what happened ? eight , I had eight he had one you may get yourself I said ah fuck no wonder I have no fucking luck , so on the settee and said I 'm not going anywhere , I sat for ten minutes then I said ah fuck you why should I sit here so I lifted the car keys and walked out again then , fucking zooming out of and there was John coming up like that |
| 20 | Would you and Karen mind standing in for me for a while ? ’ |
| 21 | Can you just get up and look under your seat for me for a moment ? |
| 22 | I I went to Dolgarrog came for me with a car and Mr could n't be there . |
| 23 | But I know it 's important to look good on stage so all my stage clothes are custom-made for me by a man called Franco Carretti . |
| 24 | TVH , as it is generally known , was typified for me by a man called Alf Mignot , who died in 1987 in his early sixties . |
| 25 | ‘ I bought the waterfalls off Lloyd Cole before he moved to America , and the rainbow was specially designed for me by a team of clever scientists . |
| 26 | My agent had borrowed it for me from a cousin who had gone to New York for six months . |
| 27 | My first bike was a Hercules , which Grandma got for me from a niece of hers . |
| 28 | Is there a message for me from a garage ? ’ she changed her mind to rephrase it pleasantly to the man whom she 'd seen many times before and who , from his broad welcoming smile , she knew had remembered her . |
| 29 | He was for going on at once , but I would stay ; so he said he would return to Mullinavat and wait for me in a bar there . |
| 30 | Living amongst the Indonesians , where the pursuit of wisdom virtually amounts to a national pastime , the elements of Earth , Air , Fire , Water and Ether became real for me in a way they had never been in the writings of the Gnostics or the Pythagoreans . |