Example sentences of "[prep] me [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Olga took a room for me just a mile north of Park Terrace — but in another world , the world of rooming houses . |
| 2 | ‘ The Secret Police looked for me just the day after I left and they kept looking for me on and off for a year . |
| 3 | And naturally , because for me hitherto the world had held no woman . |
| 4 | I used to go to him and say , ‘ Bill , please try and get them to do this ’ , and he did fight for me quite a lot , but it was an uphill struggle all the way . |
| 5 | So Adam and Eve they go and hide , but it 's not just Adam and Eve , but it 's every one of us , they 're just pictures , they 're representatives of you and of me , they are the federal head of the human race , and Paul with his writing in Romans three , and verse twenty three reminds us , and J B Phillips in his translation , he puts it like this he says every one has sinned , every one falls short of the beauty of God 's plan , that plan , that purpose that God had , not just for creation , not just for humanity in general , but for you as an individual , that purpose that God had , that beautiful plan , far better than you can could work out , out for yourself falling short of it , we 've marred it , we have n't come up to it , if that circle represented just as a diagram as a picture , God 's plan God 's beautiful plan for you and for me still a circle , but dented here , bashed in there |
| 6 | I still thought she should be keener , however , so I knocked yet another half an ounce off her flying weight , until she was so eager that she set off towards me virtually the moment she saw me putting on the glove . |
| 7 | ‘ And thus he continued ’ , writes Baxter , ‘ raging against me about a year , and then died of a fever in horror of conscience . ’ |
| 8 | ’ In the end he was having sex with me nearly every day , in the music room mostly . |
| 9 | ‘ Even though John has a busy and demanding job as planning manager at Broadgreen Hospital , he would be up with me twice a night to feed the babies , Andrew and Daniel . |
| 10 | ‘ Even though John has a busy and demanding job as planning manager at Broadgreen Hospital , he would be up with me twice a night to feed the babies , Andrew and Daniel . |
| 11 | I had with me only the name of David 's hotel which was the Intourist , which was right in the middle of town , and my Russian phrase book , which was full of phrases like , ‘ I think my leg is broken , can you stop the bleeding ? ’ which did not prove very helpful . |
| 12 | They wanted us , if everybody would have gone with me too the picket . |
| 13 | During the war , when we were doing research on strong plastics , Professor Charles Gurney used to recite this little ditty to me nearly every day and I found it depressing because wood was in fact a better material for making aeroplanes than the plastics which we could then produce . |
| 14 | I 've been given a lot of support from fans , especially letters written to me nearer the time . |
| 15 | It suggests to me either an act of personal revenge or , alternatively , a demonstration to encourage the others , as the French say . ’ |
| 16 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 17 | If I sa said to you , tell me , could you describe to me briefly the layout of where is it you work ? |
| 18 | Yet the other day I was listening to an eminent conductor whose Bruckner is often much praised reaching a triple forte long before what is to me self-evidently the work 's pivotal climax . |
| 19 | Perkin 's absence was to me almost a shock , so accustomed had I become to his being there . |
| 20 | Similarly , Benjamin 's description of cinematic form provokes immediate comparisons with the potential of recording and mixing techniques ( mike-positioning , rebalancing , dubbing , and so on ) for musical ‘ montage ’ and an ‘ analytical ’ revelation of new sound details and relationships ( for instance , Elvis Presley 's ‘ voice ’ — that is , the vocal ‘ image ’ we hear on his records — seems to me precisely a product of this kind of process ) . |
| 21 | I felt then that at last the ambitions I 'd had for so long were possible , and that I could stop worrying about the gypsy who 'd looked at me closely a couple of years earlier , and said : ‘ You 'll never come to anything , you wo n't . ’ |