Example sentences of "[vb pp] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | The crisis passed , somewhat to my surprise , and I would not dismiss the possibility that Eliot , acting so as to ensure that the information should not be disclosed to me , had something to do with it . |
| 2 | I know my partner is committed to me . |
| 3 | ‘ Father , ’ said Prior Robert , his voice again all measured and mellifluous resonance , ‘ I have delivered faithfully the lot committed to me . |
| 4 | How dare you pretend to be attracted to me ? |
| 5 | He 's attracted to me , but he knows he does n't love me … |
| 6 | ‘ If other men are attracted to me , then they 're attracted to more of me than you are because they see more of me . |
| 7 | ‘ He was attracted to me because I and my life were so very ordinary . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ An admission that you 're attracted to me ? ’ |
| 9 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 10 | ‘ I suppose that what you 're really saying is that Guy was attracted to me because he could pretend I was a boy ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Attracted to me ! ’ |
| 12 | One : that you were sexually attracted to me but fighting it . |
| 13 | ‘ I fell for him at once and he seemed attracted to me , but that was all there was to it for a long time . |
| 14 | ‘ Robert is n't attracted to me . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 16 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |
| 17 | After the way you 've responded to me , you ca n't be telling me you 've never had an affair with anyone ? ’ |
| 18 | That 's one of the reasons why I decided to get involved in the project in the first place when it was first broached to me . |
| 19 | In fact — ah , yes ! it 's come to me ! |
| 20 | It has just come to me . |
| 21 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 22 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 23 | Most of the things I expected to value in life have come to me through death . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ If you 'd have come to me when I was eighteen I would n't even have spoken to you . ’ |
| 25 | Members of staff have actually come to me and said they did n't want her in on the interviews . |
| 26 | So do n't come to me offering shares , because I 'd rather die a pauper than soil my hands with the blood that 's on your money , and there 's the truth o n't . |
| 27 | parents have come to me and said so and so 's only got a C , it 's appalling ! |
| 28 | I 'm surprised at my abilities and how easily it has come to me . |
| 29 | ‘ So you have come to me to make a double betrayal of it . |
| 30 | But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly . |