Example sentences of "[prep] i [prep] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 You go to your party , Mum , just forget about me for once !
2 ‘ You 'd think someone would have made enquiries about me by now . ’
3 I must postpone reliving the stages of failure because it 's too much , too much for me at once .
4 Why did n't you send for me at once ? ’
5 A typical Saturday at the station begins for me at about 7.30am .
6 Now for me at least the light had been turned on .
7 If anthologies ever needed any justification they received it for me at least during those years .
8 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 .
9 Sticking it down puts the paper under tension and , for me at least changes the surface qualities of the picture .
10 I think if you were to use another sheet altogether it would be for me at least unnecessary work .
11 I 'd I 'd like you to write letters for me at least this week cos I 'm going to be
12 Aunt Ilsa was a large , loud woman of forbiddingly intense bonhomie ; I always thought of her as being the most remote outpost of the McHoan clan ( unless you counted the still purportedly peripatetic Uncle Rory ) ; a stout bulwark of a woman who for me at least — had always personified the dishevelled ramifications of our family .
13 Oh , it 'll be purgatory for me at least , I 'm sure .
14 It was a uniquely beautiful experience — for me at least , if not you . ’
15 Are you waiting for me to simply sweep away all your maidenly protests ?
16 Er what is necessary for me to also convey to you is that the theme that I was given today was one of forgiveness .
17 She really has this er attitude which I can not understand because erm a a as I think it was Al Reeve said , you know , erm some people ca n't bear children , we ca n't , but we like them but if you have actually borne children , you are in other words a mother , you 've got ta have a attitude , not only to children in general but to your children in particular , which is very very difficult for er a male to understand and a non-father , it 's gon na be very very difficult cos I personally do n't have any children at all and therefore it is very very difficult for me to even comprehend but given that I can erm I can sympathize with something I do not comprehend it must be monumentally difficult for her
18 By the way , did you make the order out for me for tomorrow ? ’
19 I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom .
20 Now , you 've run a few errands for me since then , without enquiring too closely about their nature .
21 Yeah well we 've got set jobs but I mean like we 'll say look I 'll do post for you today if you do it for me like whenever
22 They might have something more for me by now … ’
23 mewing for me from somewhere in the room .
24 You need n't feel responsible for me from now on in the slightest . ’
25 It 'll be smoochy roochy for me from now on .
26 Whenever I meet him in the village , ’ he said bitterly , ‘ which is not very often , I 'm glad to say , he walks right past me without even raisin' his cap in respect … ’
27 Rose used the book to sell vines too , ‘ my self also with so plentiful a Stock of Sets and Plants of all those Sorts which I chiefly recommend , that those who have a desire to Store their Grounds , may receive them of me at very reasonable Rates ’ .
28 ‘ I 'll say this for old Wix , ’ he went on when the spasm had passed , ‘ though he does n't approve of me for not toting a gun , he 's bloody good to the old man . ’
29 So consequently I can never look to see what is in front of me for long .
30 They 'd write a poem for her about my greatest fear , I said I remember last year there was a boy called Ali and he wrote a story about a poem about this bird and cos he was really scared of that and so I said I do n't suppose any of you will write about being scared of me except perhaps Adine !
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