Example sentences of "[conj] [vb pp] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 2 | The very recollection of all the projects which since your departure from Salzburg you have formed and communicated to me is enough to drive me crazy … |
| 3 | ‘ Dorothy , I think the best thing would be if you went home now and reported to me here , first thing tomorrow morning . |
| 4 | They survived the bombing en route and reported to me as cheeky as ever . |
| 5 | ‘ He followed you to the airfield and reported to me . |
| 6 | At the time of her conversion , she was sometimes ecstatic with love ; on one occasion she returned home , and was so on fire with love which God had manifested to her that all she could utter was : ‘ O Love , can it be that thou hast called me with so much love , and revealed to me , at one view , what no tongue can describe ? ’ — Von Hugel . |
| 7 | The picture , which showed a high ranking Mandarin on his balcony bidding farewell to his pet , a white heron , which was flying away , was immediately taken from the wall , wrapped in red paper and presented to me , much to my embarrassment . |
| 8 | ‘ If they had turned round and said to me , ‘ That 's a good idea , why do n't you do it for us here ? ’ |
| 9 | Including letters addressed to other Ministers and transferred to me , the answer is about 2,000 . |
| 10 | ‘ Here , mister , would you like to see what you 've been and done to me ? ’ |
| 11 | Our friend Pétur Björnsson ( Pétur , son of Björn ) has a lovely blonde daughter Marta , who speaks no English and talked to me all night when we were last there in a glorious mixture of Icelandic and sign language . |
| 12 | I think events proved that she had come to know me a little better , and talked to me , and tried to find out what I was planning and what I was doing , and how David 's career was going , and co-operated with me to assist David , I think he would have had a much happier period ahead of him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ You do n't hardly pass the time of day with me , this is the first time you 've sat and talked to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Francis taught me all kinds of stuff from books and talked to me . |
| 15 | A tankard was filled with red liquid and handed to me . |
| 16 | And compared to me she 's a much better person than I 've ever been , she is , she 's wonderful , in , but granddad 's got a nice nature , granddad and that 's , that 's probably where she get 's it from , I 'm not . |
| 17 | As I waited , Ryan came out of a near-by block and called to me : |
| 18 | If Saint Winifred did indeed conceive and decree her departure with the wagon for Ramsey , and if a saint 's plans can not be disrupted by man , then surely she must also have willed all that happened after … the ambush by outlaws , the theft of the cart and team , the abandonment of the load , and with it , her reliquary , to be found by my tenants , and brought to me here . |
| 19 | The dream lingered through the endless moments while I trudged up the clinging sand , seeing our little cottage grow larger and more ominous , till suddenly it was if the film director grew tired and cut to me opening the cupboard door and peeping out . |
| 20 | Reminiscing from the autumn of his mid-twenties , he told Louise Colet that ‘ the greatest events of my life have been a few thoughts , reading , certain sunsets by the sea at Trouville , and conversations of five or six hours on the trot with a friend [ Alfred k Poittevin ] who is now married and lost to me . ’ |
| 21 | He used Stephenson 's double gauze safety lamp up until the 1940s , and quoted to me the number of permitted gauze apertures . |
| 22 | She has a quick word with two of her female friends and returned to me with the words , ‘ Right , Scottish , we go . ’ |
| 23 | This was immediately whipped off by a waiting attendant who then passed it along a table for it to be boxed up and returned to me in the ante room . |
| 24 | When our time there coincided , it avoided friction such as the weekend when Nigel returned and described to me the site where some new tunnelling had started . |
| 25 | She sat down , and read to me from some of the most famous magazines in England . |
| 26 | Mind you Chappie has made us all laugh at times , and Deane looks as limited to me in a different way . |
| 27 | I understand that all these come within the definition of ‘ highway lighting ’ as opposed to ‘ footway lighting ’ as given to me by one of your officers and are therefore the responsibility of Lancashire County Council . |
| 28 | I understand that all these come within the definition of ‘ highway lighting ’ as opposed to ‘ footway lighting ’ as given to me by one of your officers and are therefore the responsibility of Lancashire County Council . |
| 29 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |
| 30 | The authentic story , as related to me by Andrew himself , is as follows . |