Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | War Vets who were with me on the march-past on Saturday , our thanks to all those who made it possible the R.N. , the R.N.A. , the police , the Sea Cadets , the catering staff in St George 's Hall and the youth band who played such lovely tunes all afternoon . |
| 2 | The two lads that were with me at the end , they were being truthful . |
| 3 | You who were with me in the ships at Mylae ! ' |
| 4 | When I came back from fishing yesterday you were beside me in the lean-to gutting the catch with me . |
| 5 | When your income is not much above five or six pounds a week , as it was for me in the seventies , even a tin of dog food is out of the question . |
| 6 | It was for me like the young people out there doing their Licenza Classica . |
| 7 | He was behind me in the queue . |
| 8 | A very young prison officer from Holloway was with me at the court . |
| 9 | McQuaid was a drunken blackguard who was with me in the war . |
| 10 | It was above me on the rocks , and then it sprang into the darkness behind me . |
| 11 | Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) . |