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 ! |