Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's all that matters to me at the moment . ’ |
| 2 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 3 | At the exalted level of Olympic competition that might be true , although I find it hard to attribute the concept of ‘ needing ’ to Carl Lewis , who , and no doubt I am being unfair , always looks to me like the lead actor in a Disney film entitled The Fastest Kid on Earth . |
| 4 | He drinks from his can and looks at me over the top of it . |
| 5 | He looks at me through the mirror and nods slightly , which I take to mean he 'd like my help . |
| 6 | He looks at me for the first time . |
| 7 | In any case , it 's weird that whenever I say that to Keith , he looks at me with the unmistakably quizzical air of the tall thin intellectual he is , his hair on the blond side of chestnut ( now heavily greying ) ; his fair skin with his rosy cheeks reminding one of Victorian youths with perfect complexions ( or so the novels of Wilkie Collins and the paintings of the Pre-Raphaelites would have us believe ) ; his eyebrows bushy and deliberately unkempt ; his classic tweed suit of the old school , worn with a shamefully Byronic air somewhere between hippy and academic ; his accent public school , as befits his education , although he also speaks a passable Spanish , so we can keep switching languages whenever linguistic difficulties develop . |
| 8 | After thirty years the memory which abides with me of the Suez episode that began with Egypt 's nationalisation of the Canal on 26 July 1956 is of complete bewilderment and the sense of watching an unintelligible drama It was not surprise that Egypt had appropriated the Canal . |
| 9 | Everything nice happens to me in the autumn . |
| 10 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 11 | In my experience the smart rejoinder to a put down usually occurs to me on the bus on the way home , but at least some of my guests were quick thinking enough to exact their revenge … |
| 12 | What I 'd really like , of course , is not to have to bother with lugging kilo bags of sugar and tins of weedkiller back from the town to stuff into electrical-conduit piping which Jamie the dwarf gets for me from the building contractor 's where he works in Porteneil . |
| 13 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
| 14 | When I 'm in the kitchen she calls to me from the sitting room , where she is sewing . |
| 15 | That sounds to me like the sort of liberal view which many of John 's contemporaries would have expressed at that age , under the influence of reformers like A. S. Neill — a comparison that occurred to me before I discovered that he had been meant to attend Neill 's school . |
| 16 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
| 17 | It seems to me about the most you can ask of the human body . |
| 18 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 19 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 20 | I suspect that Mum is angry about this , as she usually relies on me in the summer to look after my younger sister while she is at work . |
| 21 | Everything points to me as the murderer , the rapist . |
| 22 | She sits beside me in the grass , not looking at me , picking cloverleaves between her feet . |
| 23 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 24 | She walks past me into the living room , and I follow like her student nurse . |
| 25 | If it proposes to amend the key diagram such that it does not indicate that the County Council intends to construct a blue route , which is what the key diagram indicates to me at the moment , then the ball game becomes very different . |
| 26 | Nothing remains to me of the pleasures and possessions of my old life , which you now enjoy at my expense . |
| 27 | So she puts a dress on , when she feels well enough , and I go and look and she talks to me about the times she wore it before . |
| 28 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 29 | Le Maître always behaves towards me with the utmost propriety , whatever people may be saying to the contrary . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ A creeping sense of sickness comes over me at the unnecessariness of mediocre painting , ’ he wrote , admitting also that he sat back , whilst others indulged in what seemed to him brittle insanity , ‘ with a sort of smothered grin and tight feeling of suffocation ’ . |