Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [conj] i [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | To tell you the truth , before I went to prison I used to meet people who had been to prison and I did n't want to talk to them because I thought they were funny . |
2 | But I have to admit I become very attached to them and I know it 's a fault . |
3 | But the squares I was n't sure what happens to them and I confused him by asking him . |
4 | I 'll get you so you wo n't even recognise your own body but after we 've done it you 'll be grateful to me that I made you do it and you 'll enjoy it and you 'll get better at it and one day you 'll thank me for doing this to you . |
5 | Mummy said to me , mummy said to me that I wash him . |
6 | erm it seemed so disappointing to me that I mean we go to the bother of producing what a fifty odd page telephone directory and people do n't even look at it |
7 | ‘ Because you 've explained your husband 's ideas so well to me that I accept them ! |
8 | It might mean , it prob er I suppose in a sense that does n't matter very much to me but I suppose it might matter if you 're sixty yeah yeah . |
9 | Come and describe Maggie to me while I get her a drink . ’ |
10 | I have to write to them and ask them and about a month later they reply to me and I pass it on to her . |
11 | ‘ They 're right kind to me and I like it there . |
12 | I watched and held my breath , but to my relief she only brought one lump out of her bag , and that the smallest of the two , which she gave to me and I put it quickly into my cart . |
13 | Cos Michael started it , he said we 're never said anything when we set off in the car , and then he said that he 'd had this fax from me and er Andrew said , well it was n't actually from , er , from me to the , it was fetched up to me and I sent it in the office . |
14 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
15 | Well of course she came running to me , you see , and we immediately phoned for the doctor , you see but , however , and I said , look , phone for the doctor , I said , and then I said go across to the railway police just across the yard and I asked one of them to come to me and I said I will go up with her and be with her until the doctor arrived , er he was with her the police sergeant when she died . |
16 | It really did n't feel like it was such big stuff , it was just happening to me and I believed I was going to be all right . |
17 | It just came to me and I knew it must be for one of you . ’ |
18 | Erm there are again there is information , there 's lots of packages on environment there 's boo , booklets on it which Catherine gave to me and I think I need to think about specific areas in the school like Milvia 's doing but not to overlap if Milvia does think about that , to try something else , some other way . |
19 | It 's clear to me and I think it 's clear to the vast majority in Congress that it 's a matter for branches to decide who represents them in the various forums of the union . |
20 | He 's been a really decent bloke to me and I reckon he 's had a rough deal , what with that wife of his clearing off and now this … ’ |
21 | The clerk turned to me and I gave him my passport and put down eleven packets and envelopes on the counter for posting . |
22 | The sweet smell comes to me and I recognise it as horse sweat . |
23 | Eating was natural to me and I want it to be normal and natural again . |
24 | If someone was beastly to me and I mentioned it , she thumped them . |
25 | once a week to me and I ring him occasionally , and er his first remark which was quite erm natural he said well you know Ernest , he said I 've heard many ministers . |
26 | Would you had brought Undry to me as I asked you ! |
27 | For you sit here , thousands of miles away from Palestine , a land which most of you will never see , and yet which you will certainly pay for-with your money , yes , and some of you with your blood and sweat — you sit here and you listen to me as I tell you about this impossible , this ridiculous dream , and it does n't occur to you that we are all mad , you and I and all our people ? ’ |
28 | Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft . |
29 | She had a daughter , Rosemary Worty , who looked up to me because I locked her up one night . |
30 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |