Example sentences of "to [pron] [conj] [pers pn] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that worked best when we were going through an investigation was to get individual kids to come and explain it … mind you they made such a racket applauding them when they 'd finished etc. , but I felt they were listening more carefully to them than they were to me ! |
| 2 | It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master . |
| 3 | Go and signal to them that I 'm on my way . ’ |
| 4 | Even though they are no longer working or bringing up children , their time is as precious to them as ours is to us . |
| 5 | erm it seems to me that they are among the most important , most serious , novels that have ever been written anywhere . |
| 6 | One TDC guard remarked to me that it is like fibre in the diet . |
| 7 | That does n't immediately occur to me that it 's for blind people |
| 8 | that intrigued me because it did n't seem to me that it was to be eligible |
| 9 | Not until I arrived on the 18th tee 1-down did it suddenly occur to me that I was on the point of losing . |
| 10 | I hardly knew how I was able to face it , either then or at any other time of my life in this mocking world , but I did , though it did not seem to me that I was in any way heroic — just the opposite , in fact . |
| 11 | It proved to me that I was in earnest , that I was truly resolved . |
| 12 | It did n't occur to me that I was in labour because it was too early . |
| 13 | Leeds ' disallowed first half goal , just after the canaries ' one , looked good to me but I was at the other end of the pitch peering through the floodlit rainstorm . |
| 14 | actually no that was the night she was really pissed off because erm people were paying more attention to me than they were to her , I do n't know why , it 's because I decide that I 'm gon na be really outgoing and I really do and I was really loud and really boisterous and she 's quite resigned like that and she thought I sh bit shagged off with me and then like I was doing , there was this really good looking bloke and he was like we , we 'd given each other eyes over the bar in this pub and Lottie goes well if you do n't hurry up with him I 'm gon na go and have him , if you do n't hurry up , you know , and just like marched over I said Charlotte give me a break |
| 15 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 16 | ‘ Rid yourself of the notion , sir , ’ he said on a menacing note , ‘ that it is any more acceptable to me than it is to you ! ’ |
| 17 | First I make the mistake of falling in love with this man who probably wo n't remember what I look like the minute I leave this place , even though he 's not averse to the idea of making love to me while we 're under the same roof . |
| 18 | Mrs Fairfax had written to me while I was at Gateshead , telling me that the guests had all gone , and Mr Rochester had gone to London to buy a carriage for his wedding . |
| 19 | But will you speak to me while I 'm in Weatherbury ? |
| 20 | But she , but she even said to me while you was in there she said Carla 's got the advantage of the fact that she 's so good at . |
| 21 | I was like she was sitting next to me and you were like all trying to move me up and think |
| 22 | Having said that , the vague possibility that we may end this season by finishing bottom and going out of the League remains incomprehensible to me and I am at a loss to explain it . |
| 23 | ‘ The horse is new to me and I am in the process of sweetening him up , ’ Richards said , ‘ so it is impossible to rate him with my other winners . |
| 24 | He knows all the villagers personally , and is as indispensable to me as he was to the previous twenty-seven Humanitarian Officers . |
| 25 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 26 | It is almost as much a foreign country to me as it is to you . |
| 27 | getting attacked in pubs you know like that 's happened to me , being verbally assaulted in the street has happened to me because I am with my lover who is a woman , who publicly I can not show like that love , publicly you know cos oh I 'm scared of violence you know , I like my face the way it is . |
| 28 | Cos she , she said it to me cos she was on such a high you see cos she 'd just come on , did n't you see her last night ? |
| 29 | ‘ The idea first came to me when I was at college and Paul Watson , a BBC producer , came to do a series of lectures . |
| 30 | Oliver sang very little now Gran was too tired to play the organ , though sometimes he sang hymns softly to himself when he was on his own in the garden . |