Example sentences of "me [prep] [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 2 | Will you really stay with me for all time , be my wife ? ’ |
| 3 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 4 | I sat with a tomato juice in front of me for some time straining my ears to hear what Nigel was saying . |
| 5 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 6 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 7 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 8 | My quizzing about the intellectual world which I was about to enter with some trepidation left him with a wry smile , which puzzled me for some time after , as my naïvety about the world of further education lasted well into my early days in college . |
| 9 | My little girl Natasha was with a friend at the time and because my mum had n't seen me for some time she was concerned . |
| 10 | I was too upset to eat or drink , but she sat with me for some time , talking gently to me , wiping away my tears , and helping me to recover . |
| 11 | When you said you had been ‘ meaning to ask me for some time ’ , did you mean over the five and a half lonely years to date of my grass widowhood or merely since I 've had no car and no earnings ? |
| 12 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 13 | And erm he 's hired from me for some time now |
| 14 | He said his thug would stay with me during that time . ’ |
| 15 | pester me about this time |
| 16 | Does n't leave me with much time . |
| 17 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 18 | He was fixed for me in this time , this pose . |
| 19 | But I felt dreadful , like a bloated lump with one leg and no hair , so there are n't any photos of me at that time at all . |
| 20 | ‘ David obviously wrote the songs and everything but I felt a lot of responsibility came on to me at that time , although it was nothing like David 's , ’ he says . |
| 21 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 22 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 23 | It was a heavy leather-bound copy of Don Quixote , dramatically illustrated by a man whose name meant nothing to me at that time , Gustave Doré . |
| 24 | I had about ten staff working for me at that time , all girls and women , supervised by the Senior Clerkess , Emily Lightbody . |
| 25 | I have to say again I 'm sorry no it it was n't obvious to me at that time definitely not . |
| 26 | There were statements of intent , exhortations , graphs and charts all aimed at producing improvements in what was to me at that time the nebulous concept of ‘ Quality ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ You can repay me at any time , of course . ’ |
| 28 | They can come to me at any time . |
| 29 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 30 | The situation is best illustrated by a letter that reached me at this time from Mrs Mugabe : There was no way in which I could reply to the letter except by a futile expression of sympathy . |