Example sentences of "[verb] to me at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all . |
| 3 | Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all . |
| 4 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 5 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 6 | Well they wan na , do n't matter to me at all I just think they 're dodgy characters . |
| 7 | Before I start , if you have written to me at some time and recognise your own problems in what follows — please do n't take offence ! |
| 8 | Several correspondents have written to me at different times expressing the wish that we join forces in order to become more effective . |
| 9 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 10 | The telephone answering machine , and my clients ' willingness to talk to me at unusual hours of the day and night , kept me firmly in touch . |
| 11 | Lesley says : ‘ My husband is getting very frustrated with trying to talk to me at 9.30 in the evening when I 'm in a heap . |
| 12 | He had not written anything he had not already said to me at different times ’ . ’ |
| 13 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 14 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 15 | I did n't mind , I was happy that he still talked to me at all . |
| 16 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |
| 17 | ‘ Anna has n't spoken to me at all , ’ confessed Seb unhappily . |
| 18 | If Sombro had been referred to me at one of my clinics in England , the problem would have been easy to diagnose and the treatment straightforward . |
| 19 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 20 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 21 | They can come to me at any time . |
| 22 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 23 | You wonder that it should seem to me at first all illusion But how natural — It is true of me … very true … that I have not a high appreciation of what passes in the world under the name of love ; & that a distrust of the thing had grown to be a habit of mind with me when I knew you first . |
| 24 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 25 | They brought me down that day from Edinburgh , bundled me into a transit van with seats but no windows , handcuffed to a big quiet London lad who would n't talk to me at all and did n't even say much to the other two cops in the back of the transit just sat staring ahead and we seemed to drive all night just stopping once at some service station on the Ml , took a while to arrange everything , then they came in with a selection of cans of soft drinks and sandwiches and pasties and pork pies and chocolate and we all sat there munching then they asked me did I need the toilet and I said yes and they opened the door and it was straight over the grass into the gents ' toilets , two cops guarding the door and some men , looked like truckers , standing watching me , waiting for their turn after I 'd had my private visit ; only wanted a pee but I could n't do it even though the big lad was n't actually watching just having him standing there handcuffed to me was enough so they checked the stalls and then took the cuffs off me and I had to leave the door open a crack while I went , then back out and I see the other cop cars Christ a Range Rover and a Senator too I 'm a fucking VIP , then it 's into the van and on with the journey to London where the questioning starts ; they 're concentrating on Sir Rufus 's murder , for now , because they found a card a fucking business card in the woods near the burned cottage ; not mine that would have been too obvious but a card from a guy I know on Jane 's Defence Weekly with some scribbled notes on the back : |
| 26 | Please write to me at 20 Upper Ground , London SE 1 9PF . |
| 27 | He made himself say to me at last , after weeks of dithering like a frightened diver on a rock , ‘ D' you think my Jammie will ever go in bed with me ? |
| 28 | But it can be any image that comes to me at second-hand , whether it be postcard , film still , TV or whatever . |
| 29 | So it 's Broadhurst 's Wager that comes to me now , comes to me at three o' clock in the morning while I harken to the cooling unit . |
| 30 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |