Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to i [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean to me they 've , London is classed as the south . |
| 2 | but I do n't see , I 'm trying to make it like a genetic connection or something I mean or some kind of like you know I mean to me it 's just set up |
| 3 | Oh a long time , er , matter of years really before I could settle down at , as I say to me it was roots |
| 4 | Er well I 'm not sure I want to I I I I want to help you out chairman . |
| 5 | So erm when er but I hasten to I I did n't know about those people I knew that the the two |
| 6 | But then that question was asked last night erm from one chap about sport versus the arts and I suppose to me it is a quality of life issue erm where do you start an and stop I mean you have a problem when you have a recession do n't you , where you say okay we i we are in a recession we have got limited resources we have to make decisions . |
| 7 | And er , when I went to me I found out it in the post It was in the post , that I was picked . |
| 8 | Anyhow I said well I should n't say this I know and I know times have altered , but I said it was n't er I said I 'm not saying it because Martine and Nicola were in it , but I said to me it was n't the same as when they were in it . |
| 9 | Someone said to me you take three years to mourn . |
| 10 | So I have to I I sit there the week before I get the you know before I get the money , I sit there and work it all out . |
| 11 | If every pensioner I have to I I do n't want to I mean I a I do n't want people to think I 'm m m too much of an anarchist . |
| 12 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 13 | mm and she goes to me I 've got a cup like that . |
| 14 | ‘ But why , Karim , especially as you pretended to me you were going off to take the damn exams . |
| 15 | But you 'd to me you do n't you do n't turn to stealing to do it for a one off . |
| 16 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 17 | Chris you were right about Casualty last night it was a repeat , she says to me I 've seen it before , I says no you have n't |
| 18 | She says to me I 've explained to her how to do it and she says yo I 'll give you a bit of paper you just write down the answers ! |
| 19 | No she heard her saying that and she says to me I was so mad |
| 20 | It sounded more like , she says to me I think you should save up Norma and |
| 21 | This was echoed by another boy : You see , my mom right , she says some words to me , right , sometimes , right , wha' I ca n't understand you know an' I sort of start laughin' , but then again right , y' know , I can understand some o' de words which she says to me y' know — I even speak it back to her , y' see . |
| 22 | Erm the point that you put to me I think two or three questions ago wa was related as I understood it to the the alignment and the network of the lanes . |
| 23 | And when she came to me she was already pregnant . ’ |
| 24 | But when she came to me she just said : ‘ How are things going with your single — what 's involved ? ’ |
| 25 | In fact I sat next to her at a lunch in Abingdon a few years ago , and erm this image one got of her of not being a listener is totally untrue erm every time she turned to me it was to listen to what I had to say . |
| 26 | I always seem to , I think we , we were always at Stanford Hall that we must , it was a must that we have a good programme because if somebody comes and there 's nothing doing , they think well you know yo I , I , you see I suppose I 've got that orientated into Guild work but a friend of mine enticed me to go to er a club and erm it 's just simply for any age group , any sex male or female , but you must bereaved you know and erm she is a widow and I was widow , so I went but you see we , we sat round and you just , there was nothing organised and to me who had always been organised , I just felt so like a lost soul you know and er then one chappie put some records on and you cou and you could n't dance to them and I said oh , you know to me I thought wh you know but I do n't want to do it , I 've got enough to do but , I , I was straight away , I was looking for the organisation behind it you know . |
| 27 | So Angela did n't want to get involved — she did n't need the capital , after all — and she said to me she might do it in a year or so when Miss Huntley had calmed down . ’ |
| 28 | Extract 2 oh listen I wanted to tell you one of the girls in my supply class we 'll hoover when we come back wo n't we she said to me she looked at my shoes and she said you 've got flashy shoes or something I said I got them in Spain she said Miss are you Spanish I thought it was really funny |
| 29 | Cos she said to me she said guess what ? |
| 30 | She 's a miss really but she just she said to me she was miss , but she might have said ms , you know ? |