Example sentences of "[prep] me [pron] [vb mod] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With one huff it took in things about me I 'll never know . |
| 2 | If it had n't been for me they 'd never have nicked any guitars and there would have been no group . |
| 3 | But for me there will only ever be one Dalglish . ’ |
| 4 | Lawrence declared last week : ‘ If Lee does n't sign for me he wo n't leave London , ’ after the striker had indicated he did not fancy quitting the capital . |
| 5 | Erm I think I 've learnt how to do it , it 's fairly straightforward but er him having tied the leader on for me I wo n't have to go back to him anyway for quite some time . |
| 6 | ‘ Even if anyone came in for me I would n't want to go before the end of the season . |
| 7 | We usually pick , most of them keep their religion to themselves do n't they for me I would n't know . |
| 8 | not for me I would n't . |
| 9 | But for me I ca n't . |
| 10 | At the end of two days you say well fine but it 's not for me I ca n't do anything about that when you walk out the room but I hope my objective is to convince you that here is something that like lots of other people in time I can it 's a very very useful system . |
| 11 | ‘ What you 've done for me I 'll never forget . |
| 12 | For me I can not remember who said it , someone far wiser than far wiser than me but somebody said a judge is civilization by the way he treats the |
| 13 | If you 'd tape it for me you would n't have , I would n't have to have |
| 14 | ‘ But if all the Rime Giants ever spawned were after me I would still sit here , for I need some hot food in me to fight the ice in my bones . ’ |
| 15 | For the life of me I ca n't remember what courses I took — it was so boring . |
| 16 | To quieten her , to get away from the dark , lurking forest of the past , she said , ‘ I 'll get you a drink , though for the life of me I ca n't imagine why you are cold . |
| 17 | I remember that there was terrible screaming and that blows were delivered , but for the life of me I ca n't recall ever making sense of the basic problem . |
| 18 | Once the idea took hold of me I could n't rid myself of it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I want to know what is behind this first , ’ he snapped , ‘ because for the life of me I can not understand why a man in his position should want to take up with the likes of you . |
| 20 | He is flying a kite — and good luck to him , but I am sure like me you will not be surprised to find that his kite blows away and is covered by the sands of time . |
| 21 | But if you are a farmer like me you can not avoid winter , whatever your age or physical condition . |
| 22 | Well , if you 'll just , if I 'm allowed to turn round and consult the chap sitting behind me I can actually give you a direct a direct answer . |
| 23 | ‘ Not with me it wo n't ’ |
| 24 | I do n't know whether , people thought that erm if they interfered with me I would n't er I would n't play or what it was but then , anyway erm when the war ended , as I say I got a bit erm worried and erm I then got in touch with er Mr who was then er , then taken over from Sir Cecil Clerk of the Council or Chief Executive and erm , he suggested that erm I might take a course for the erm Home Workers Diploma For The Blind which erm was , well it was a sort of specialized er social worker really . |
| 25 | gazumped , because nobody will take him , cos he knows absolutely nothing , about nothing else apart from butchery , it 's the same with me I ca n't work a computer so I 'm cramped in the way of clerical , it 's no good applying for half of them because you 've got to have keyboard skills and erm computer skills |
| 26 | It towered so far above me I could n't even see the top of it . |
| 27 | ‘ I know , but without me you would never had had that chance . ’ |
| 28 | On the other hand , you know all there is to be known about me : born Bigley Road , Grays , in Essex , twenty-six years old , wife Alice … who says if she had met you afore me I would n't have had a look-in — and she only saw you from a distance . ’ |
| 29 | I rang , I rang , I went to the dole office , when I went down I ask them as soon as I left Ann said the same , go down the dole when you ask about your poll tax , they said to me we ca n't give you any id , er anything , you have to phone them , council building site , I phone the council building and they asked me , that 's why I sent all your wage slips in for |
| 30 | He 'd come round and it had been so nice , and we seemed to be so comfortable with each other , not just in bed you know , and it did n't occur to me we would n't do things together and see each other . |