Example sentences of "me [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He meant no more to me than a painting or a sculpture . |
| 2 | At the time West Ham was little more to me than a name , most directly associated with a football team that had a reputation for style and steadfast support in spite of limited success on the field . |
| 3 | Miss Evans said , ‘ You might say he 's been more like a father to me than a brother . ’ |
| 4 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 5 | ‘ Wish that I did have the courage to kiss you , querida , ’ he rasped , ‘ but I have standards and a level of decency to live up to and they are more important to me than a moment of weakness to prove that I am immune to you . ’ |
| 6 | Well , to me if a child has got a by all means encourage along but you should n't push them into anything cos later on in life they get a bloody complex about everything you know if they |
| 7 | Before long I was promoted to sewing seams , and woe betide me if a stitch showed on the face of the cloth . |
| 8 | They turned and watched me until a shoulder on their side of the small ravine hid them from view . |
| 9 | Foreignness for me provided a difference that moved me in a way that sexual difference never did ’ ( ‘ Home and Abroad ’ , 44 , my emphasis ) . |
| 10 | And it was perfect for me because a lot of the vibrato that I had developed over the years suddenly sounded more like me , because the vibrato bar was n't there taking up the slack and giving way every time I applied vibrato . |
| 11 | Well they interest me because a lot of them are about , about the army and no , no , pretty far ranging , army , navy , but er , a lot of them about India er but he a , he certainly a criticized the er , the powers of being , you know , in the er , you know in the Boer War , the Great War and you know , and up to the thirties . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're an offensive shit , Bellybutton , ’ I said in a very friendly voice , but he had already turned his attention away from me because a car had suddenly appeared in the yard . |
| 13 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 14 | Erm so I do n't think that one 's achievable erm I think what this amounts to is that erm there are two cuts that we do n't agree with er there 's a vast on reserves we do n't agree with but we managed to put forward a thousand pounds for education at the same time erm i this does strike me as a budget of a party which it knows has no prospect of any sort of responsibility in this council for a long time to come . |
| 15 | Yes , that always struck me as a bit odd , yes . |
| 16 | Well it should be in the file and I asked for this and keep it before me when a scheme is set up , A we have a map which I must have sent out letters , |
| 17 | My lesson lasted about half the time of Tony 's , terminating as he was explaining the purpose of the deadman 's handle to me when a gust filled his chute and hauled him off in fine style . |