Example sentences of "[adv] be [pron] [prep] me [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That would be a good move — but far be it for me to advise the Prime Minister on that point . |
| 2 | Only problem was , and far be it for me to dampen any thrashing of another team , was that Wimbledon were allowed to play for a good bit in the second half and could have come back . |
| 3 | I think , Bill , really you far be it for me to try and teach you your job , but you ought to have perhaps gone back a little bit and wondered why we were all in this position , because you have us in year after year talking about budgets that are made and budgets which improve services , and and we need to be absolutely clear that this budget does not improve services at all , that this budget does very severe damage to services , that the budget that has gone through the Council identifies nearly eight million pounds taken off service provision erm and that can not be done under the Conservatives by making erm a budget with the Liberal Democrats have proved that it ca n't be done , in spite of their previous comments , without pain to services . |
| 4 | When Merrill did n't speak he said shortly , ‘ Of course , far be it from me to pry into a client 's financial arrangements , but it struck Bob as rather strange . |
| 5 | ‘ Oh , far be it from me to pry , ’ Rob said loftily , ‘ I was merely paying you an indirect compliment . ’ |
| 6 | Nor is it to degrade the female ( far be it from me to do so ) . |
| 7 | ‘ Far be it from me to play the killjoy , Dudders , ’ he said . |
| 8 | ‘ Far be it from me to stand in the path of true love , ’ he said lightly . |
| 9 | Still , far be it from me to stand in the way of close international relations … ’ |
| 10 | It seems to me that while you work initially for local councils and local councillors who should , obviously , be the people who have the power and the say , and far be it from me to recommend that you ignore or even threaten to undermine the democratic process , however imperfect it it it may it may be , you have you are working for that local council . |
| 11 | Far be it for me to say that this is the sort of budget that conservatives ought to applaud because it is after all , a budget that is guided by a feeling that councils should provide services and they should orientate their services to the least communities , to be guided by equal opportunities and by egalitarians and that 's what this group has always stood for , this is the budget that we present tonight and I would hope that it would get a far better and far larger measure of support than perhaps of course been the case in the past . |
| 12 | Far be it for me to mention Huntingdon district council but that is one which |
| 13 | Far be it from me to give Mr Major advice , but I would suggest that insults towards any of these people , such as his recent attacks on ‘ froth and bubble ’ Lord Tebbit , will backfire . |
| 14 | Far be it from me to criticize comments made in the heat of the moment , which should be understood for what they are , cries of unendurable suffering , a passionate outburst of all-too-comprehensible anguish . |
| 15 | Far be it from me to speak ill of the dead but Ken Mentle , may he rest in peace , single-handedly made this club what it is today , the Accrington Stanley of Bradford Park Avenue . |