Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Last time Roger was outside waiting for me for an hour and a half |
| 32 | My father made a number of water-colour sketches of them that fascinated me as a boy but have since disappeared . |
| 33 | I knew my family would never accept me as a boy or man , so I began to withdraw from them . |
| 34 | ‘ Oh , was he ! ’ they say , and dismiss Mr Wood as a nonentity , and me as a pedant or a poseur . |
| 35 | It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose . |
| 36 | Well , I do n't actually know if he 's proud of my work , but he 's certainly proud of me as a person if that makes any sense . ’ |
| 37 | ‘ I said the money would not change me as a person and it has n't , ’ she said . |
| 38 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 39 | ‘ It was important to respect the independence of older team members who had been used to me as a competitor and find the right balance between coaching and friendship . ’ |
| 40 | The way Batty was handled strikes me as a sign that the management are not thinking along winning the championship this year but are prepared to bide their time . |
| 41 | ‘ In my teens , I 'd always end up with women who 'd tell me they liked me as a friend but , actually , they wanted to shag my best friend . |
| 42 | Akinwande , 27 , said defiantly : ‘ They can shout at me as a foreigner but in Mickey , the best manager anyone could have , I 've got someone who 's got a good voice too . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Girls still treat me as a bitch and pull my hair , ’ said Vanessa . |
| 44 | They were the only words ever spoken to me as a player that could remotely be termed coaching … nobody realized that a young player needed reassurance . ’ |
| 45 | John trained frantically hard with press-ups to increase his strength and , as Pamela Chrimes described it , ‘ used me as a dumbbell until he could cope ’ . |
| 46 | It may mean ‘ this is a role which was ascribed to me as a woman and which I resented ’ . |
| 47 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 48 | But try to implicate me in any way — or use me as a trade-off- and it 'll be added to the police clear-up rate faster than the eye can follow . |
| 49 | G Nat History & tc will also be of interest to me as an evidence that our intercourse has been productive of none but the most amicable feelings , that your [ two words illegible ] [ eyes the blessing of friends ] [ illegible ] |
| 50 | The Jungle Book was not mentioned again by any of them , as if they were n't ready to see me as an actor but preferred me in my old role as a useless boy . |
| 51 | Mr Leach , who had originally opposed Mr Taylor 's selection on procedural grounds , said : ‘ Some of them still treat me as an ally and I know what they are saying . |
| 52 | Now advertising strikes me as an area that I I feel I can put make some input into . |
| 53 | ‘ There was no message to give , nothing about a ransom or anything ? ’ |
| 54 | Here the question is subjective : did the person hearing the words in fact interpret them as a dismissal or a resignation ? |
| 55 | Practical theories and theoretized practice meet somewhere in the middle , and it may be more fruitful to see them as a continuum than as a dichotomy . |
| 56 | Distress is a remedy given by the common law , whereby a party in certain cases is entitled to enforce a right or obtain redress for a wrong in a summary manner , by seizing chattels and retaining them as a pledge until satisfaction is obtained . |
| 57 | Some skip the tight fantastic by using them as a jumping rope , others wear them as a scarf or string them up in the garden as a washing line . |
| 58 | Displaying them as a stem and leaf will reveal their typical magnitude and the shape of their distribution . |
| 59 | And , if so , would he recognise them as a warning that Doreen was not the right woman for him ? |
| 60 | She should have followed her instincts and remembered what Debbie had written at the end of those notes , taken them as a warning and run as hard and as far as she could away from this Capricorn man ! |