Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] me [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Chloe says to me does the post office pay you ?
2 Such an approach appears to me to involve the possibility at least of an immense increase in the cost of litigation in which statutory construction is involved .
3 This submission appears to me to suggest a way of making more effective proceedings in Parliament by allowing the court to consider what has been said in Parliament as an aid to resolving an ambiguity which may well have become apparent only as a result of the attempt to apply the enacted words to a particular case .
4 Thus inauthentic languageusing behaviour might well be effective language-learning behaviour , but to call the latter ‘ authentic ’ seems to me to confuse the issue .
5 I have told my childhood story because it seems to me to parallel the general evolution of a progressive , child-centred approach to learning .
6 It seems to me to magnify the difficulty of that particular operation if it has to be conducted under any sort of time pressure which the arrangements for the hearing on 3 February 1992 seemed to entail .
7 The common claim the that the stories are remarkable for their even tone seems to me to miss the point .
8 This seems to me to beg a hundred questions .
9 Adorno seems to me to situate the problem , without necessarily being the solution to it .
10 it seems to me to perform the functions which we were er seeking through through the proposed Policy three .
11 But I 'm unconvinced by the pause Marriner inserts between the main section and trio , which seems to me to lessen the effect of the oboes ' pivotal , punning Gs that lead into the trio 's C major .
12 A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work .
13 At the utmost , the allegation that he relied on the testator 's promise seems to me to import no more than that he believed the testator would be as good as his word .
14 This bears some resemblance to the definition communication referred to in Chapter 2 and seems to me to generalize the meaning of the term authenticity to the point where it ceases to have much significance .
15 Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires …
16 The golden thread approach , coupled with considerations such as that post-Darwin certain past arguments no longer hold water , together with an element of an a priori ethical stance , seems to me to provide the best concerted argument for the ordination of women .
17 Over-dependence on the behavioural elements of sexual therapy seems to me to run the risk of ignoring the underlying emotional factors .
18 It seems to me to indicate a failure on the part of the union activists to understand that by ‘ withdrawing good will ’ , the state education service has lost much of the respect so painstakingly built up by successive generations of teachers .
19 It is an open cluster , easily seen with × 7 ; with × 12 it seems to me to have a slightly elliptical appearance , with indications of resolution into stars .
20 I do not know ; she seems to me to have no human heart left in her . ’
21 But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package .
22 Barnes ’ impassivity on receiving this message seems to me to show a rooted unwillingness to believe ill of BCCI . ’
23 ‘ the parties are free to make any arrangements which they like dealing with the subject matter of costs ; and it seems to me to make no difference whether that agreement is made before or after the court takes the matter into its consideration .
24 ‘ Mr. Howell 's argument , which found favour with Simon Brown J. , seems to me to approach the question from the wrong end .
25 It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice .
26 It usually falls to me to sign the Christmas cards from my husband and myself , so whose name should I put first — his or mine ?
27 Once again my sincere apologies for my absence , as I explained last September , this weekend is my mother 's 80th birthday and it falls to me to host a celebration and to entertain friends and relatives during the weekend .
28 As no doubt the teams are ready to take the field , it only remains for me to extend a warm welcome to the directors , players and boisterous supporters of Scrimley Arsenal and wish you all an enjoyable afternoon .
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