Example sentences of "to me as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 2 | But the painting said nothing at all to me as I stood gazing at it . |
| 3 | This applies just as much to me as it may do to you . |
| 4 | I began to alter my standards of hospitality , offering them my pale , cold face when their music grew louder , when they began laughing among themselves and did n't take the trouble to explain their jokes to me as they had before , or repeat their words until I understood what they were saying . |
| 5 | All this I learn from the bus driver who chats to me as we wait for the traffic ahead to move . |
| 6 | For all that , on Queenie 's death he was inconsolable : ‘ no human being has ever meant as much to me as she ’ . |
| 7 | The Frenchman waved to me as the jeep sped away down the road . |
| 8 | Her words came back to me as I pictured her sitting by the fire in her tiny croft . |
| 9 | No doubt she has heard about Lovat being badly wounded during the early days of the fighting in Normandy and remembers her words to me as I left Achnacarry to join Lovat in Sussex . |
| 10 | I have slept in a full set of thermal underwear , but the cold gets to me as soon as I leave the bag . |
| 11 | He knows all the villagers personally , and is as indispensable to me as he was to the previous twenty-seven Humanitarian Officers . |
| 12 | ‘ But you must remember that I am an industrialist and , really , factories are as interesting to me as museums , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 13 | It just occurs to me as I write that Chavasse in this matter is probably the unwilling mouthpiece of the Select Vestry : I daresay even that monstrous regiment of women , incarnated in Lily Ewart , is really at the bottom of it . |
| 14 | It looks to me as if-in accord with our country 's culture generally-recent Black art is harsher , more hurt , more despairing . |
| 15 | I do remember saying , ‘ Look , you can give yourself to God but to me as well , and the public . |
| 16 | As a producer ‘ Space Oddity ’ was very important to me as it was only my second or third record and I was looking forward to seeing David play it live . |
| 17 | It has always had about the same amount of appeal to me as sheep 's eyes . |
| 18 | No hair was so beautiful to me as hers was , light golden hair , long and rippling . |
| 19 | Begin with thanking me for him ; look at him as a person as important to me as you are . ’ |
| 20 | But on that morning my happiness was clouded by something he said to me as we were walking home to lunch : ‘ Your parents know about you , Jim — you know that , do n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | I stood at the front door of No. 5 , watching Dana straddle his bike , adjust his backpack and wave cheerily to me as he roared off down the road . |
| 22 | One of them would come and talk to me as I sat beside Aunt Louise , and discuss her with me as if she were a child . |
| 23 | I must explain a bit more , for other things occur to me as I try to recall the text which is now in the wrong hands . |
| 24 | He laughed in that slow way of his , and it sounded to me as though he was turning his head away from the mouthpiece . |
| 25 | All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one . |
| 26 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 27 | The haunting words of Dowson 's poem , which had brought us together again in 1943 , returned to me as I stood on that Paris balcony : |
| 28 | ‘ Everyone loves dressing up , you know ’ , my ten year-old companion said to me as we walked together through Charlecote Park in Warwickshire down the long driveway to the sixteenth century gatehouse . |
| 29 | I tell them all about the bar-tailed lark and the Berbers but they 're looking at me in a very strange way and I mean now the whole story sounds pretty crazy to me as I 'm telling it . |
| 30 | The legendary wealth of the Incas sounded almost as unlikely , as marvellous to me as it must have done to Pizarro and his cohorts , many of whom were peasants drawn from an arid future in Estremadura . |