Example sentences of "me to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 2 | It seems to me to be perverse in the extreme to attempt to resist the claim that the brain is literally carrying out these functions . |
| 3 | Some time in the early hours of the morning we cross over what seems to me to be a pontoon bridge , then suddenly we are up to our thighs in water . |
| 4 | The phenomenon seems to me to be different in kind from the first . |
| 5 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 6 | The struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God , the recognition that even the most primitive feelings should be part of our heritage , seems to me to be the explanation and justification of the life of |
| 7 | It was you that taught me to be a Darwinist , a decent gradualist . |
| 8 | That does seem to me to be important . ’ |
| 9 | This seems to me to be an enormous change . |
| 10 | That seemed to me to be a perfectly proper use of what the company had to offer . |
| 11 | The idea that we should divide our lives into three parts — education/full-time work/retirement — seems to me to be absurd . |
| 12 | That seemed to me to be a nice balance — good for our shareholders , good for our company and good for the country , as I saw it . |
| 13 | The main reason for fishing the middle line of the river today is that with a head wind it is the safest distance for me to be able to loosefeed easily . |
| 14 | This discussion of the primacy of communal property is a point central to Marx 's whole work , and the pleasure he gained in its confirmation in the work of Morgan seems to me to be the only really clear element to emerge from the notebooks . |
| 15 | The reason for their success seems to me to be less due to their perceptiveness concerning pre-capitalist conditions than due to the depth of their analysis of the nature of labour under capitalism . |
| 16 | Killing things for fun seems to me to be so immoral as to warrant no discussion at all . |
| 17 | A key phrase here seems to me to be ‘ gentle figure who handles his firing weapon ’ . |
| 18 | As a feminist I wanted these women to stop having what seemed to me to be silly attitudes … |
| 19 | They wanted me to be a secretary and they wanted my sister to be a doctor or something medical . |
| 20 | My father , who 's also an actor , once wanted me to be in a play that he was in , and just being asked made me cry . |
| 21 | Marie told me to be sure to switch it off when I ai n't in the room , or else at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 22 | No one comes up to me to ask what I want , so I reckon it 's OK for me to be there . |
| 23 | Hard experience has taught me to be selective in my procrastination . |
| 24 | You do n't expect me to be surprised , do you ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to me to be inconsistent with the spirit of liberalisation to have a mandatory code that necessitates a cumbersome and bureaucratic certification process . ’ |
| 26 | It really hurts me to be going away . ’ |
| 27 | This seems to me to be mostly self-regarding poppycock . |
| 28 | He basically just told me to be myself . |
| 29 | One line in the song seems to me to be very revealing : when you say you want to see her killed ‘ because people like you/make me feel so tired … so old inside . ’ |
| 30 | It was like every time I got a letter or an insinuation from him that he cared , or that he really loved me or wanted me to be with him , it shocked me because he was n't good at showing that . |