Example sentences of "[prep] i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Lawrence declared last week : ‘ If Lee does n't sign for me he wo n't leave London , ’ after the striker had indicated he did not fancy quitting the capital . |
| 32 | I 'd love to read something about Beefheart again — for me he is still just about the only person who has been described as a genius in your august organ who might just be one . |
| 33 | I told Michael what he wanted to hear , pretty much , without actually promising anything , because I could tell he was going to make it easy for me He was falling asleep on my shoulder When he did , I slipped out from under him , picked up his sexy uniform , which did n't seem quite so sexy any more , and took his glider key off the chain Then I got dressed quick , holding the key in my teeth , and then I went over to the kite , but I must have made a noise ; because Michael woke up I looked back and saw him putting both feet in one leg of his trousers , calling my name , trying to back out of it |
| 34 | For me , nothing in War and Peace is as valuable as the boat-cutting-out expeditions of Marryat and for me he remains the greatest of English novelists . |
| 35 | But er eventually I found out that er , er , I ca n't er work peacefully here , because if I stopped for er , fighting for the benefit of the workers then er they will think that er I have been bribed or something like this and if I keep fighting for them then there 's no peace of mind , there 's always struggle , so I thought I 'll leave , and the second was , that I wanted to bring my family into this country and I was n't saving anything while leaving them because that 's a bit expensive area and er , the person who got the job for me he said let's migrate to Yorkshire . |
| 36 | For me he 's been the best player on the field this first half . |
| 37 | It was marvellous when he rang , but since I ca n't have him ringing here again , I told him , in a moment of my feelings getting the better of me , that if he does have any message for me he could contact you , and you 'd pass it on . |
| 38 | Has , for me he has a strong dislike for |
| 39 | For me it was also at school playing Sir Andrew Aguecheek . |
| 40 | For me it was like an Aladdin 's Cave , and one could not help but notice the often ridiculously low prices being asked . |
| 41 | For me it was paradise ; I was already brown . |
| 42 | It was an exchange — for me it has to be . |
| 43 | ‘ For me it 's been exactly the opposite ; I 've never been healthier — and I 'm much more religious than when I started doing this . |
| 44 | ‘ Listen , ’ said the pig , ‘ for you it 's just an offering — for me it 's a real sacrifice ’ . |
| 45 | For me it is always the same , though we now have the added good fortune of playing live concerts and recording in the Philharmonie . |
| 46 | For me it 's Pol Pot time : year dot . |
| 47 | ‘ The Square itself would have looked nothing like this in Cadfael 's day , but for me it 's got a lot of atmosphere and history . |
| 48 | But for me it was Couples 's play of the long 15th that marked him down as a most worthy champion . |
| 49 | But for me it 's been well worthwhile . |
| 50 | It ca n't have been very pleasant for the sand-martin , but for me it was a magical moment ; to possess , momentarily , such a beautiful , wild creature . |
| 51 | It was a 15- to 20-footer , and luckily for me it went in . |
| 52 | This was a brilliant performance , and for me it brought back nostalgic memories of Windrush , and the summer days of 1940 . |
| 53 | For me it 's forward or nothing and if you do n't believe that you deserve to be a second-rate club or second-rate country . ’ |
| 54 | As for me it was preparation for Morning Service at 10.30 am . |
| 55 | For me it was a time of revelation . |
| 56 | Back in the Met Office , for me it meant a completely new set of faces . |
| 57 | For me it was certainly a healthy life , living up on the wolds after two years in the marshy lowlands of Cambridgeshire and Huntingdon . |
| 58 | But for me it fails to provide an easily understandable route to the basic explanations which are lurking there wrapped up in just too much verbiage to be really accessible . |
| 59 | But for me it 's the smaller scale works that really succeed : Harle 's enjoyable arrangement of Ellington/Mills 's Caravan for example is more like an Intercity 125 than a rolling camel train , while the exoticism of Isfahan ( from the ‘ Far East Suite ’ — available on RCA Bluebird , by the way ) is all but drowned in the sweet smell of strings ; compare to Ellington 's original spicy reeds ! |
| 60 | However , for me it was heaven on earth . |