Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Perhaps that is the difference , wrote Harsnet , between me and someone like Goldberg , for all his energy and ambition .
2 That is the difference , he wrote , between me and Goldberg , me and McGrindle and the rest .
3 For example , the thought ‘ They are on my left ’ does not ‘ succeed ’ as a thought unless I can also have other thoughts such as ‘ If I move to my left they will move to my right ’ , ‘ They are substantial ’ ( that is , not a chimera ) , ‘ They are reachable/not reachable ’ , ‘ They are supported by something ’ , ‘ A large opaque object coming between me and them would render them invisible to me ’ …
4 as men pass between me and the sunset ) …
5 It is the complex play between me , you , them , the film , the cinema building and the world outside that enables us , on occasion , to experience reality more completely , and as in dreams to see in the dark .
6 There were times when I was starting in at the cattle that it stood between me and the road .
7 There could be no greater indication of the contrast between me two friends ' approach to their craft than a comparison between The Lost Road , tentatively built up stage by stage , with an infinite number of backward glances at the whole mythology that has gone before , and Lewis 's self-confident brush strokes as he dashed off Out of the Silent Planet .
8 Surely you see a difference between me , who wrote long , incoherent , and enthusiastic letters , enjoyed perfectly the songs of birds and the sight of a sundown , believed in the possibility of perfect happiness , perfect beauty , perfect purity , and a perfect world , all perfected , too , by that thing Nature which was so real to me ; a difference between me then and thus , and what I am now , dull unenthusiastic , unimaginative , but more coherent and prudent , though still imprudent enough to write such things as that Sonnet , which even you esteem bad , I think … .
9 Surely you see a difference between me , who wrote long , incoherent , and enthusiastic letters , enjoyed perfectly the songs of birds and the sight of a sundown , believed in the possibility of perfect happiness , perfect beauty , perfect purity , and a perfect world , all perfected , too , by that thing Nature which was so real to me ; a difference between me then and thus , and what I am now , dull unenthusiastic , unimaginative , but more coherent and prudent , though still imprudent enough to write such things as that Sonnet , which even you esteem bad , I think … .
10 This is My Covenant , which ye shall keep between Me and you and thy seed after thee : every male among you shall be circumcised .
11 ‘ I do set my bow in the cloud , and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth .
12 Please , she thought , let someone sit between me and him , let someone sit next to me .
13 Well , I 've never even seen a dead body before — imagine , what with the bones , the shroud and the flies ; if I had n't had the camera between me and it , I do n't think I could have looked .
14 The other officer climbed in and sat between me and the pilot .
15 The man between me and the pilot loosened his belt and taking an automatic from his holster turned round and sat facing me .
16 There was a small space between me and them but the mousy man and the suitcase had disappeared .
17 I am now in the foreign regions of Tsin and U ; and countless are the miles of the trackless way , brushed by the wings of birds alone , lying between me and my native land .
18 In any case the idea of such a thing between me and the lieutenant is quite absurd .
19 I left about three feet of bench between me and him .
20 The only snag was that big smelly dog Captain that kept nosing in between me and Uncle Bill , always glaring at me and showing his big white teeth .
21 I would like my vote to be 100 percent secret between me and the ballot box .
22 Suddenly a huge , hairy , knuckled hand bearing a diamond pinkie ring and a fiver appeared between me and my sewing .
23 Lisa said : ‘ Nothing happened between me and James Gilbey .
24 If he had to choose between me and Bellybutton , or between Bellybutton and his own mother , he would have chosen Bellybutton any day .
25 Ryan O'Neal 's son , Griffin , has also related tales of violent encounters with his dad , saying , ‘ There has been quite an exchange between me and my dad — literally .
26 There was no real communication between me and my father , who was also on holiday from school for much of this time .
27 I had begun to feel that there was some sort of glass partition between me and the rest of the world .
28 The message was between me and him .
29 ‘ But the British public would like to see a fight here between me and Bruno and we can get that on , if Frank wants to take such a big risk . ’
30 ‘ There was no animosity between me and him in Las Vegas .
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