Example sentences of "to me [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 2 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 3 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 4 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 5 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 6 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 7 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 8 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 9 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 10 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 11 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 12 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 13 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 14 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 15 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 16 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 17 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 18 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 19 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 20 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 21 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 22 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 23 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 24 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 25 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 26 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 27 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 28 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 30 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |