Example sentences of "to i [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was necessary to me as part of my approach to socialism , for before you can be sure whether you are genuinely in favour of socialism , you have got to decide whether things at present are tolerable or not tolerable , and you have got to take up a definite attitude on the terribly difficult question of class … |
| 2 | His secretary had come to regard lying to me as part of her job and even our friends lied for him , aiding and abetting my dick-led husband in a misguided effort to protect me . |
| 3 | He was assigned to me as armourer and tail gunner . |
| 4 | But what happened was , if a member of my branch had a complaint , he would come to me as secretary and complain . |
| 5 | Being ‘ in on it ’ , so to speak , had dissolved fear ; and death , for the first time , seemed as natural to me as birth . |
| 6 | And then we talked of more interesting things , things by now as familiar to me as legend , in a sort of litany , each speaking in turn . |
| 7 | Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law . |
| 8 | Mysticism , in particular , is as meaningless to me as music must be to the tone deaf . |
| 9 | ‘ I went to class to meet friends , dancing was secondary and the social side was as much if not more important to me as competition . ’ |
| 10 | For some time I was left standing at the counter but eventually one of four assistants came over , introduced himself to me as Mr Palmer and asked how he could help . |
| 11 | How much easier it would be if you could refer to me as Signor Sabatini , yes ? ’ |
| 12 | But I must ask you to stop washing your hands in the Holy water , and please , please , do not refer to me as Mother Shapiro . ’ |
| 13 | And I 'll tell thee for naught , Daniel — never look to me for succour . |
| 14 | A document has been drawn up , and has been sent here to me for consideration . |
| 15 | They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter . |
| 16 | Two or three years ago a friend of mine who is a publisher applied to me for help in dealing with a complaint from a man who had bought one of his cookery books . |
| 17 | You came to me for help , remember ? |
| 18 | Eventually it seemed it was only I who ever thought about that still , cold morning , recalling in my dreams that cry and that hand held out to me for help I could not , would not give , and the silence that followed Andy disappearing under the ice . |
| 19 | I 'd also write down everything important that happened over the years , so that students of history would come to me for help . |
| 20 | I betrayed your trust and I betray sick , helpless people who come to me for help , because I love you . ’ ‘ |
| 21 | ‘ Even if you had serious money problems you would n't come to me for help , would you ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 23 | The one who I told you used to keep running to me for help . ’ |
| 24 | When my Noble Friend was kind enough to say that he looked to me for help as being I think he said an ornament on the front bench , was n't quite certain whether that was supposed to be a compliment or not , but I thought an ornament or something that you that sat upon a er er er er er upon a shelf and looked pretty , but did n't actually do anything . |
| 25 | I have this kitchen full of people , all looking to me for instructions like it was me who organized this . |
| 26 | This threw her more passionately on to me for solace and support , but I was losing patience — I did n't know how to cope . |
| 27 | When a patient comes to me for regression , I do in fact record the session on cassette , giving the tape to the patient at the end of the consultation . |
| 28 | Otto must have talked to me for hours that day . |
| 29 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 30 | And then I realized that the little cup she 'd brought with her out of the sea , and gave to me for Adam — that little cup could be none other than Undry . ’ |