Example sentences of "[prep] i [pron] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have had a good year with minor upsets , such as a cataract operation for me which was no trouble at all , and has resulted in a dramatic improvement in my eyesight . |
| 2 | To myopic Karen my world was a featureless , threatening blur , while for me hers was a chaos of microscopic inanity . |
| 3 | But , sad as I was to leave the arena of Ultra , for me there was no choice . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For me it was a time of revelation . |
| 6 | For me it was a good thing to get married young because by the time I got into show business the marriage was already solid . |
| 7 | One man described the horrors of the experience : ‘ For me it was a smutty , furtive affair in which I was lucky to get a stiffy , as they say . |
| 8 | For me it was a welcome challenge at the time and , in retrospect , I enjoyed it . |
| 9 | The journey must have been a torment for them , though for me it was a merciful chaos of trudging along muddy roads , of running for shelter from German fighter planes , of waking in the cart caked with snow while my mother and grandmother strained at the shafts . |
| 10 | For drama and excitement the Ryder Cup proved once again that it is the ultimate golfing event , and for me it was a privilege to witness the finest players in the world performing under the most intense pressure . |
| 11 | For me it was a breakthrough . |
| 12 | John took it coolly enough , but for me it was the tenderest agony , particularly at first . |
| 13 | ‘ We all grew up with American films , but looking like me there was no way on earth that people would think I was an actor . |
| 14 | ‘ We all grew up with American films , but looking like me there was no way on earth that people would think I was an actor . |
| 15 | When he next caught up with me there was a wide grin on his face . |
| 16 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 17 | ( Exodus 20 v.2/3 ) ‘ I am he : before me there was no God formed , neither shall there be after me . ’ |
| 18 | Before me there was an analysis of the arrangements that are available in other jurisdictions exercised by justices for the making of costs ' orders and for the assessment of those costs . |
| 19 | And in fact er one My brother next to n to me I was the middle of them I was the youngest boy . |
| 20 | To me it was a great personal achievement . |
| 21 | To me it was a fitting ending to a trip to the ‘ paradise islands ’ . |
| 22 | So overall , to me it was a very insecure State colluding with an anti-intellectual church , which the Irish church always was . |
| 23 | Well to me it was a first time and being an unmarried man that I 'd earned anything like it . |
| 24 | To me it was a proper job because that was |
| 25 | If somebody was interviewed by him and had a bad time , I can tell you I had a bad time , well to me it was a bad time , when I with him and he saw he spoke with me . |
| 26 | And so , i I mean it was to me it was a total waste of time over there ! |
| 27 | And he goes to me it was a Boss h you know Boss the , the make , the clothes and the perfume and everything ? |
| 28 | I was conducting Elektra in Berlin — I think it was around the time of his 75th birthday — and at the end he came and said to me it was the best performance of the opera he had ever heard . |
| 29 | It was n't exactly a naturalist 's dream , but to me it was the Great Outdoors , an unexplored wilderness . |
| 30 | The letter had no place in any magazine which seeks to promote rugby and to me it was an extremely biased and naive view of the Principality . |