Example sentences of "[prep] i at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was taken off me at Widnes , with Jonathan Davies doing most of the tactical kicking , and I 've been told it cost me a Great Britain tour chance . |
| 2 | Yeah how , she got all these bloody vouchers off me at Christmas you know |
| 3 | When I get out of my train at Victoria and look about me at the other two hundred — mostly strangers , not least so those whose names as early schoolfellows dawn on me when they disappeared , — I sometimes think that one or two of us ought to speak out instead of just voting and making a remark in the complaint book once or twice a year and writing to a newspaper less often . |
| 4 | ‘ By a quite exceptional oversight , ’ said Rufus , ‘ I do n't just happen to have any picture postcards of the Acropolis about me at present . ’ |
| 5 | And I was married to a soldier so I did n't have any family round about me at the time so it was it was pretty hard . |
| 6 | Form 1A were assigned to Mr R. J. ‘ Bunny ’ Warren for Mathematics and I still have the reports he wrote about me at the time . |
| 7 | Everything he had loved about me at first became embarrassing . |
| 8 | Should you wish advice from the world 's greatest detective you may enquire for me at the Rose and Crown . |
| 9 | In one week I listened to the English boy singing the praises of my dark colouring and frizzy hair , felt him kiss me on the cheek with obvious pleasure whenever I cooked a meal and when I came in from work , or when we sat watching television together , and found him waiting for me at the end of the road when I was late back for some reason . |
| 10 | The two worlds of nature and abstraction meet when Stavrogin asks Dasha whether by coming to be his nurse ‘ you hope to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 11 | When Stavrogin , who ‘ poisoned ’ Kirillov , and who also kills himself , wrote that letter to Dasha Shatov asking her to come and be his nurse , his mind wo n't have been bent either on or away from suicide ; he was neutrally wondering whether she hoped ‘ to set up some aim for me at last ’ . |
| 12 | I think about Mr Jackson and I get a sort of uncomfortable feeling when I remember he was waiting for me at the house and I did n't come back . |
| 13 | Two days sitting in the plane and fifty bourbons later I had this young born-again advocate holding my hand and praying for me at the top of his voice . |
| 14 | Charles Hill , who had spoken for me at Chatham Town Hall during the election , came up to me . |
| 15 | The bigger problem for me at the time was the way the orchestra was playing . |
| 16 | ‘ The important thing for me at the moment is to stay in control . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's all very exciting for me at the moment , here I am about to go around the world for the first time , seeing cities like New York , which I have always dreamed of seeing . |
| 18 | ‘ For me at any rate , ‘ I reply . |
| 19 | He normally works for me at St Andrews and I want him to do it because he 'll be retiring after this year . |
| 20 | Callahan shot a roll for me at Lacanau . |
| 21 | Now for me at least the light had been turned on . |
| 22 | If anthologies ever needed any justification they received it for me at least during those years . |
| 23 | It was too large for me at that time , but over the next twelve months I must have grown considerably because , with wooden blocks fixed on the pedals , I was able to reach it in comparative comfort . |
| 24 | Landing fee for me at Southend is thirty-odd pounds ; Troyes cost just £2.50 . |
| 25 | The combination of purple-red flowers and cream variegated foliage of Buddleia davidii ‘ Harlequin ’ may not suit all tastes but least appealing of all , for me at any rate , is the purple-flowered phlox , also called ‘ Harlequin ’ , whose leaves are generously splashed with cream , a combination which does not work for me . |
| 26 | He would make beautiful toys for me at work , smuggling the pieces out in his wooden case to be reassembled at home . |
| 27 | The consequence , for me at least , was that I reckoned that the earthquake account for 1992 had , so to speak , been settled , and that we were in the clear for a year or so . |
| 28 | He calls for me at nine , |
| 29 | This is just the objectivity which is to be claimed in general for the good ; what is good for me now is not necessarily good for you or for me at other times , nor even what I now spontaneously prefer , it is what anyone would spontaneously prefer for me if sufficiently aware from my present viewpoint . |
| 30 | ‘ We were looking forward to going seven points clear for Christmas but four will do for me at this stage . ’ |