Example sentences of "to me [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This really is committee work but I , it does occur to me that mention it that erm , if in our advertising we point out that we have a car park attendant and if that car park attendant were to let one slip through his fingers me were , we may well then be liable to be sued by the person who |
| 2 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 3 | There 's a certain look you have when you 're making love to me that shares my anticipation and surprise . |
| 4 | A disobedient Norfolk farm boy was propelled into a lifetime of professional poaching by the combination of a harsh , flogging father , who for years ‘ never spoke to me nor owned me ’ , and an entertaining , caring grandfather who had poached himself : ‘ I 'm not shure I did not inherit some of my sporting ways from him . ’ |
| 5 | In those days , it never occurred to me but to employ my time as best I could , without any thought of ‘ going on the dole ’ , which was for the underprivileged . |
| 6 | One : that you were sexually attracted to me but fighting it . |
| 7 | Sometimes the English Catholics write to me and ask me for help , and sometimes I write to them . |
| 8 | ‘ When we stopped at traffic lights , Warren took hold of my hand and said that he was becoming more attached to me and asked me if I would like to go out for dinner the next day . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Then , at the end of the reception , Larry came over to me and asked what I had said to the bride 's father . |
| 10 | An explanation in fact followed , after which Scipio , " grasping Polybius ' right hand in both his own and pressing it warmly , said : " Would I could see the day on which you , regarding nothing else as of higher importance , would devote your attention to me and join your life with mine " " ( 31.24 ) . |
| 11 | I now thank that friend who first put the direct question to me and made me make the decision . |
| 12 | When it was on television it really looked , it really looked good but er the reality of it was it was pretty bad really but er the editor was very kind to me and made me look quite a hero but . |
| 13 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 14 | He 's half way frew his forf punnet , he turns to me and says he ca n't fink why he has all these troubles with his skin ! " |
| 15 | Quigley went to the door to check there was no one around , then , unable to stop himself , ran back to me and twisted my ear hard . |
| 16 | Then an acquaintance started talking to me and diverted my attention . |
| 17 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
| 18 | Come to me and let me give you what you want . ’ |
| 19 | Fellow Jews , and all of you who live in Jerusalem , listen to me and let me tell you what this means . |
| 20 | And so when God comes to me and asks me to do something he 's already walked that path before me . |
| 21 | The same bloke who was there before comes up to me and tells me they 're closing . |
| 22 | I know , woke up this morning she was , she was obviously cold , cat was right under the covers , snuggled right up to me and got her , her chin on me arm like that , I was asleep Justifying Nation , did you like that ? |
| 23 | Now Mr Jaggers turned to me and told me that on Monday I would go to Matthew Pocket 's house to start my studies , but until then I would stay with his son , Herbert , who lived nearby . |
| 24 | He showed this to me and told me to note especially the inscription on the coin 's obverse side : ‘ O.A. Paykhull cast this gold by chemical art at Stockholm , 1706 . ’ |
| 25 | Could n't you have come to me and told me that you were in debt , that you needed money ? |
| 26 | Lineker 's agent came to me and told me that Lineker wanted to go to play in Japan . |
| 27 | Members of staff have actually come to me and said they did n't want her in on the interviews . |
| 28 | Erm John 's Dream the National Playwright 's Network actually wrote back to me and said they 're quite happy to read your plays for a fee erm but I intend to re-write that before I put it in er for a reading erm Oh , I I sent a poem called Pleasure to Woman 's Weekly in June last year and I suspect they were actually planning to use it but they 've had a New Year 's clear-out and I got it back yesterday . |
| 29 | Suddenly he walked back to me and said I ought to avenge my father 's death and that he could help me . |
| 30 | And then he looked , when he put it out he looked over to me and said I could see your face Irene . |