Example sentences of "[pron] is [adj] [prep] i " in BNC.

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1 The Sunday Telegraph tartly commented ‘ If someone is nasty to me again , I shall send a photographer round to take their pictures in 3D .
2 I had n't seen Michael before , which is normal for me .
3 but er , I have nothing , nothing , er no actions at all which is mysterious to me , I , why nothing 's going on I do n't know .
4 If you grew up in a society which is strange to me , I have first of all to acknowledge that its customary approvals and condemnations are as spontaneous in you as are your more personal reactions .
5 I got up at seven which is late for me
6 An intense field of humming guitars and amplified noise , Kill Laura 's songs similarly bear little or no resemblance to the rest of contemporary music , which is fine by me .
7 ‘ Soul On Ice ’ is a self-styled disco record , which is fine by me ; unfortunately it is also a rather monotonous record with a plodding beat that owes little to the glories of mad '70s dance music .
8 And that we actually op adopted a b a modern sensible er , reasonable attitude towards all living creatures and that we do today vote to ban fox hunting it is anachronistic as I said earlier , it is not necessary it actually causes harm , not only does it cause harm to foxes , but at least in one case , which is sufficient for me to continue my support for the ban damage to the people in my area .
9 I have always quite liked typing , and with one of these mistakes are easily put right , which is lucky for me .
10 which is difficult for me with my
11 Without it , I counld n't get to work , which is important to me .
12 In summary , the fee arrangement which you have proposed and which is acceptable to me is as follows :
13 I have to admit I was affected by the occasion , which is unusual for me .
14 She is good to me .
15 She is important to me , yes , ’ he answered heavily .
16 I know she wants to help me and is worried about me , but on the other hand I think she is angry with me .
17 She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me .
18 ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on .
19 It is McAllister who is dear to me , not Sally-Anne .
20 ‘ Any Mrs Baudelaire who is senior to me is in her grave , ’ she announced .
21 Each division is led by a Head of Services who is responsible to me as their Chief Officer .
22 ‘ It is rather she who is interested in me , I fear . ’
23 I am so intrigued I forget about Crilly , who is ready for me with an unwrinkled surface of silver , the smack neatly concentrated into a lump .
24 True , she behaves like someone who is unfaithful to me all the time .
25 Everything is cold to me — as cold as ice . ’
26 I keep half a dozen pond mongrels in a tank , and every one is dear to me .
27 No one is rude to me , ’ he said .
28 The former says that because something is true for me it is necessarily true , while the latter says that because something is not true for me it is not true .
29 The experience of tragic art confirms that the relation of pleasure and awareness is two-way ; if a welcoming of the sharpest awareness of things from which we most deeply recoil , without any reservations of the sort of ‘ This hurts but it is good for me ’ , can make even the fate of Lear or Oedipus enjoyable , it would seem that there can be no involuntary quickening of awareness without joy .
30 It is good for me to get out and do the shopping ; I enjoy that bit of fresh air every day , and it is something I have got to do because this is when I meet people .
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