Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] me [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 2 | If one place could not be distinguished from another there would be nothing for me to seem to be saying in saying , ‘ Here ’ in answer to ‘ Where are you ? ’ . |
| 3 | There was nothing for me to hold on to prevent myself from getting closer and closer to the pool . |
| 4 | ‘ There is nothing for me to go back to , ’ she says , ‘ nothing for me to live off . |
| 5 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 6 | There 's nothing for me to do . |
| 7 | There was nothing for me to do , I was too young to get a work permit , and mum was determined we were n't going to start breaking the law the minute we 'd got there , so she called Auntie Muriel and Auntie Muriel said why not . |
| 8 | Nothing for me to do here really is there ? |
| 9 | There is nothing for me to add ’ . |
| 10 | If you do n't get it , there 's nothing for me to add . |
| 11 | He 's too dear to me for me to pretend a love I do n't feel . " |
| 12 | ‘ God has not bestowed talent on me for me to dance attendance on a woman , and thereby waste my youth … . ’ |
| 13 | So how can you expect someone like me to deal with the day ? |
| 14 | ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other . |
| 15 | You are welcome to serve my meals in my room , there is plenty for me to do alone upstairs . ’ |
| 16 | The dreams were all in a mess on the top , so I got hold of them and put them underneath me to stop them blowing away ( not that there was any wind ) and hunted through the rest . |
| 17 | Er , you only just have to say , well you know , would it suit you for me to come in |
| 18 | ‘ I rarely get away from church without someone finding something for me to do up at the manor . |
| 19 | Can you recommend the best one for me to choose and offer any cultural instructions ? |
| 20 | Moreover , this story is a painful one for me to tell . |
| 21 | ‘ If my intention was to become famous worldwide , it would mean something to me to unify the titles . |
| 22 | I had nothing inside me to dampen my blood ; it caught fire . ’ |
| 23 | What is there for me to question you about ? ’ |
| 24 | John wrote at length to Hanns about colour , shapes and general effect desirable , and asked him to ‘ do a few rough sketches and send them to me to give to Cecily ; number them so that I can just send you back a telegram saying ‘ Do number three ’ say , unless there is more to be said . ’ |
| 25 | The supermarket gives them to me to bring my wife 's shopping home in on Fridays . ’ |
| 26 | You left him for me to tend , with never a word , and I 've done my best for him . |
| 27 | At last he sent for a chaprassi and sent him with me to look for something , but on the way I found nice Mr Dickensen , an American from the University in Rangoon . |
| 28 | I had to pull her on and cuddle her into me to keep her warm . ’ |
| 29 | In the end the doctor , being far-sighted enough to believe in the value of hypnosis when properly practised , sent her to me to see if between us we could unearth the cause of the problem . |
| 30 | They had left it for me to finish alone on a chill blue , lonely morning five centuries later . |