Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] be [prep] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | This one is for me . |
| 2 | I am glad it is behind me . ’ |
| 3 | We ca n't come next week , cos next week it 's on Thursday morning Wait a minute , that one 's for you Tim that one 's for me there we go . |
| 4 | that one 's for me is it ? |
| 5 | But I 'll never forget how good she was to me all through the war , took so much off my hands when I just could n't cope . |
| 6 | And was rose red , and all you are in me — was |
| 7 | Oh yes it 's , it 's been changed a lot and a , and er , it 's made such a difference and I 've met er , I 've got a er fr a very good friend who 's , who 's a Red Cross young man who I met at Leah Manning and he takes me out in the car which I would n't , never get out otherwise because my boys are all working you see they ca n't , they 're busy working and erm do shift work and security work , one 's got his own security business and the other one 's got a factory in Bishop 's Stortford so that they do n't get much chance , they work away , some of them do that they can not get to take me out see , so he takes me out , which he 's very , very good you know , he 's , yesterday he took me to erm , yesterday we , he took me to Ongar to see his sister in the bungalow and then he took me for a meal at erm The Chariot at er , at Brentwood , Brentwood , yes Brentwood The Chariot , it was quite nice I had rather , a good time , erm cos usually I ca n't get out unless I go out in the wheelchair you see I 'm confined to a wheelchair , though I struggle out into the kitchen with me two sticks and I 've got a stool in there that I do all my own cooking and I make cakes and that and I 'm doing a cake gon na make a cake for Christmas for me brother and make a cake , er another one for myself like , but , and then I go to my erm daughter-in-law 's to spend Christmas Day and then I , I 'm going to my son 's and spend Boxing Day which is my birthday , I 'll be seventy four on Boxing Day I 'm dreaded to say , yeah , but erm , this young man that takes me lives in Northbrooks , he 's er a widower , but he 's very , very good , he helps all us old people , you know , he 's ever so good he is to me , he comes up and brings my shopping today , does my shopping for me as well , so , well he 's , yes , he 's most kind , for , nearly two years I 've know him , that 's a photo over there , it was taken at a wedding look , of my , that 's it , over there , taken at a wedding dear , very good |
| 8 | I was sure he was after me . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , that 's all he is to me , I promise . |
| 10 | all it is with me |
| 11 | At five thousand it 's with me at five thousand five hundred fifth row at five thousand five hundred pounds , any more at five thousand five hundred pounds down there and I shall sell at five thousand five hundred pounds . |
| 12 | She said this with a certain violence , and Clara 's attention quickened , for she thought she was about to witness the emergence of one of the buried conflicts of which she had heard so much : but Mrs Denham said quickly , " For goodness sake , Clelia , you know how good it is for me to have James around , it takes me back to those lovely days when you were all so small and docile . " |
| 13 | Now you see how important it is to me ! ’ she cried passionately . |
| 14 | Back in those Hard Times , funerals offered us the comfort of knowing that , however tough it was for me and thee , there was always somebody who had it worse . |
| 15 | ‘ People still write about how strange it was for me to be with someone like Catherine , ’ he says . |
| 16 | I failed to see how tolerant he was of me , with my callow questioning of everything : I flinched under the coldness of his eye , yet did not perceive his isolation . |
| 17 | ‘ Wonderful you 're with me , darling . |
| 18 | It 's just necessary for me to express how very precious she was to me . |
| 19 | Apart from how kind he is to me giving me something so easy . |
| 20 | The lower the bed is , the harder it is for me to get out . |
| 21 | I 've got a sale to go to at nine , and you know how difficult it is for me to get back to sleep once I 've been woken . ’ |
| 22 | He appreciated how difficult it was for me ‘ to give way ’ , what a wrench it was for someone who always operated on his own to cooperate with an act he neither understood nor , at that time , actively sought . |
| 23 | The fact that I should think this , and thought this at the time when I was one of the leaders of the movement campaigning for the ordination of women , brings it home to me how difficult it was for me to work within that movement . |
| 24 | A sense which can work against his best interests — for I need not repeat how much I respect Amaryllis , how entirely delightful and suitable I find her and how wonderfully rare she is for me who has — as man to man I can tell you what you must guess — several times been urged to marry . |
| 25 | Can you imagine how bitter it is for me to have to write that sentence ? |