Example sentences of "to i he " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me he was battering his career , because , before that we all worked as a team . |
| 2 | In the great roles — his Tristan , his Otello — it seems to me he brings to the part a unique sense of musical phrasing . |
| 3 | To me he said , ‘ Well , young Cooper , I know you do n't drink alcohol , so you had better have a non-alcoholic drink . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose Michael was quite a superficial person but to me he represented excitement and it was a period I had to go through . |
| 5 | Joe Engelberger may seem ‘ a real fun guy ’ to John Bell , bursting with zest for life , but to me he is a typical example of technocratic ‘ pace-setters ’ , imbued with the virtues of dynamism , expertise and unlimited ambition . |
| 6 | To me he was James Cagney and Edward G. Robinson rolled into one . |
| 7 | Then leaning further over to me he whispered in my ear : ‘ Did you see that crowd of shit in the streets ? |
| 8 | ‘ I found the journalist but the day he was going to talk to me he was killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 9 | To me he 's the best . |
| 10 | ‘ If you keep talking to me he might think we have n't seen him , ’ Benny hissed out of the corner of her mouth . |
| 11 | On that first Broadway night I had stood in the wings where he was absent-mindedly fondling the breasts of his frizzy-haired admirer , and to me he had looked just like any other dirty old man ; but then , as the royal fanfare sounded , he had twitched his grey gown , given me a wink , and walked into the stage 's glare . |
| 12 | To me he is the most beautiful child in the world . |
| 13 | It seems to me he 's trying to play judge and jury . ’ |
| 14 | By the time he got to me he was n't ranting and raving , he just stared at me with mad eyes . ’ |
| 15 | Instead I tidied the spare room , glad again that I had been forced , through circumstances , to have him with me the night after his death , because to me he was n't Nigel one moment because he was breathing and not Nigel the next because he 'd stopped . |
| 16 | He shows nothing that suggests to me he should wear a Liverpool shirt . |
| 17 | Anna beamed : ‘ As soon as he left the starting blocks it was clear to me he was going to win . ’ |
| 18 | To me he was incomprehensible , but having a climbing partner who was fluent in French , English , Spanish and Catalan , was a definite advantage . |
| 19 | ‘ Tom was a fairly astute captain in many respects , but to me he was a typical fighting captain and was always prepared to try something if things were not going the way he thought . ’ |
| 20 | What he is doing to me he has practised in the classroom . |
| 21 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 22 | Not my idea of an intellectual , or a businessman ; to me he 's like a merchant in a fairy tale . |
| 23 | To me he was just another old Vietnamese ’ ( Ho was then 55 ) . |
| 24 | It seemed to me he was not so much indifferent as hostile towards these poor men . |
| 25 | We had discussed this business of how people 's appearance literally alters in the eyes of their lovers , and suddenly I blushed , for it seemed to me he must be remembering this too , and that we must be looking for the same thing , as one might take down an old book in a moment of hungry nostalgia and start to re-read , hoping it may provide the same remembered enchantment as before . |
| 26 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 27 | I bought him different clothes , and had his hair cut , but to me he looked just the same , and I lived in constant fear that he would be recognized by someone who had known him in the past . |
| 28 | To the prison guards he was a dangerous criminal , but to me he was an unfortunate man , who had at least some goodness in him . |
| 29 | To me he seems to cast a blight over the whole day . ’ |
| 30 | And I used to go up there and tell him what I wanted and as far as keys and anything like that , got sent to me he would . |