Example sentences of "me [subord] i was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a Met Officer remarked cheerfully to me ( from the warmth and light of the office ) , that the rats were much more frightened of me than I was of them , but I noticed that he did n't take me up on my suggestion that he should come out with me and see for himself . |
| 2 | There was no danger … he was more frightened of me than I was of him … but that 's not the point … if it had been an old lady … he coulde have given her a heart attack … |
| 3 | ‘ But several days later he came straight out with it and asked me if I was on the Pill and would I go on holiday to Scotland with him . |
| 4 | ‘ John came up to me , asked me if I was in pain then took hold of the jack , ’ said Mr Trueman , of Chaddesden , Derby . |
| 5 | IT NEVER struck me until I was in the sixth form that the activity pursued by scientists had any direct link with the everyday world . |
| 6 | If I had to describe her , I would say that she was a sensible , down-to-earth woman , dressed plainly and cleanly , understanding what I was experiencing , yet sighing at my folly and patiently keeping an eye on me till I was in a stronger state again . |
| 7 | Mrs Fairfax had written to me while I was at Gateshead , telling me that the guests had all gone , and Mr Rochester had gone to London to buy a carriage for his wedding . |
| 8 | The DHSS reckoned someone was signing on for me while I was in prison . |
| 9 | Perhaps they were as eager to be without me as I was to be without them for a while . |
| 10 | It became apparent that he was as aware of me as I was of him . |
| 11 | there 's a horse erm in some of the fields just coming out of Morpeth towards Newcastle and I saw , pardon me as I was on the bus like yesterday coming into Morpeth and this horse just shot out of nowhere and it was really enjoying itself ! |
| 12 | I wanted you to be as much in love with me as I was with you . ’ |
| 13 | I am a self-contained person : neat and elegant : or was until I met Eleanor , who , disgraced , childless , alone , sprawled and wriggled against the shiny black sofa with the big red flowers , and I knew I would rather be her , her life out of control , than me as I was with Lou ; a woman whom an editor could describe as ‘ the mistress of controlled reportage ’ . |
| 14 | Why , you were as hot for me as I was for you ! ’ |
| 15 | For the previous five years I 'd worked solely as a sports photographer , and had really enjoyed it , but my work on the Hoggar Marathon was different , because I was just as interested in the scenery that surrounded me as I was in the race itself . |
| 16 | I wanted to believe you were as interested in me as I was in you , but … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The idea first came to me when I was at college and Paul Watson , a BBC producer , came to do a series of lectures . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ I do n't know how fans looked at me when I was at Liverpool . |
| 19 | ‘ They caught me when I was off my mark , ’ she says . |
| 20 | He reminds me of me when I was like him . ’ |
| 21 | The same restrictions were placed on me when I was in the southern province of China last year . |
| 22 | They did n't succeed in oppressing me when I was in prison for 16 years and I ask you now , do n't stand alone when you can be together ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll never forget that it was the RFU who got behind me when I was in trouble . |
| 24 | Aye , well I seen him , He came up to see me when I was in , |
| 25 | He died in 1942 and it is my lasting regret that after I left Oxford I did not see him again ; I still have the letters he wrote me when I was in the Sudan . |
| 26 | Remember that big sloppy jumper you knitted me when I was in the sixth form — that maroon one ? |
| 27 | You know , when she came to visit me when I was in bed a couple of weeks ago she was asking erm how grateful she was to your parents for |
| 28 | Well it reminds me when I was in a shop on the High Street for many years and a little boy and girl came in with a , with an Alsatian dog , a puppy . |