Example sentences of "for me [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you they did more for me than my own mother did . |
| 2 | This might work better for me than his lying in a darkened room , which was what he really needed to do . |
| 3 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 4 | ‘ Are you trying to make this even more intolerable for me than it already is ? ’ |
| 5 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 6 | And I think that 's good for me 'cause I 'm so independent now . |
| 7 | ‘ I climbed upon the science train because it was the only door that swung open for me after I got my degree . |
| 8 | They were a bit big for me but they were lovely and dry and I was feeling great when he came in with a bottle of champagne . |
| 9 | you u u use your brain a bit more , see now if er they used to come to me , my brother was one , he 'd come to me and he 'd say , right I 've got a heavy lift , so will you come up here and sling it for me but we had to put the slings round the heavy lift , say , I say right I 'll come up and another time we had a railway carriage come down like that 'll be shipped abroad , old railway carriage . |
| 10 | She comes with the reluctant insouciance that says , ‘ You may have paid for me but you do n't own me . ’ |
| 11 | The 1855 treaty was finally ratified in 1859 , with Old Joseph commenting : ‘ The line was made as I wanted it , not for me but my children that will follow me . |
| 12 | ‘ It was tough for me but it will be easier second time around , ’ he said . |
| 13 | The doctor told me they were strong : in fact he prescribed them for me but it seems more logical to give them to Mum since it 's her that stops me sleeping . |
| 14 | Mind you , it had a chess program that he 'd load up for me but it just ai n't the same as a human being . |
| 15 | When they left , however , and I made the decision to stay , I knew it might be hard for me but I knew also that I was doing the right thing . |
| 16 | It 's only the beginning for me but I thank God for the privilege of serving him this way . |
| 17 | I did n't know what she had planned for me but I understood well enough her meaning . |
| 18 | The sheep were very curious and made a bee-line for me but I managed to push my way through to the birds . |
| 19 | ‘ This is a battle for me but I 've been brought up to battle . |
| 20 | ‘ This is a new chance for me but I ca n't say yet that it 's the beginning of something long term . |
| 21 | And we decided to get lots of copies for all our friends that we have n't seen for a long long time so I asked if they could do them for me but I thought they would be back by now , well they should of been back ages ago actually ! |
| 22 | But it 's far too early for me but I 'm just interested |
| 23 | It is certainly no sadness for me that I live in a house that is open to the public . |
| 24 | ‘ The Test match fulfils an ambition for me that I never thought would be possible in my time , ’ he said . |
| 25 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 26 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I have asked Uncle Orrin to tell everyone who calls for me that I am not ‘ at home ’ . |
| 28 | I have also of course been very excited by the new doors that have opened up for me that I never knew existed . |
| 29 | Ellen Orford in the poem is a middle-aged woman and it was fortuitous for me that I was about the right age — it 's not a part for a young soprano . |
| 30 | Well I did n't know anything about any none of us knew anything about anybody in those days , cos it was so early on in the , and we were n't , I was influenced more by people like blues er black blues singers , American blues singers like Muddy and Lightning , all those old blues , , er they were the heroes for me that I grew up with playing skiffle and and then Lonnie became my first Lonnie became by first hero and I er modelled a lot of my early singing on Lonnie . |