Example sentences of "[verb] to me the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 2 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 3 | ‘ Forgive me if I seem to be playing the amateur sleuth once again , but something else occurred to me the other day , which might or might not be of interest to you . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 5 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 6 | Reveal to me the great secret . |
| 7 | That God will give me a clear vision for the future and reveal to me the next step after DTS . |
| 8 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 9 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 10 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 11 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 12 | But he 's moaning to me the other week about you know , er and I bloody near said to him , well er , things have come back on you know , but I should of |
| 13 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 14 | One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side . |
| 15 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 16 | One thing about the strategy is that it seems to me the ultimate goal is perhaps to get rid of the warlords |
| 17 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 18 | It seems to me the Freudian view takes both into account . |
| 19 | ‘ When I say to people that Edward Wood [ Irwin 's name before his ennoblement on appointment to the viceroyalty ] seems to me the highest kind of Englishman now in politics , many of them ’ , Begbie admitted , ‘ look surprised and perplexed . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |
| 21 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 22 | So , as an all-rounder that can cope with fingerpicking , strumming and solo work , the ultra-responsive D-18 seems to me the runaway winner ; but as a pure rhythm/accompaniment instrument , the D-32 perhaps just nicks the biscuit . |
| 23 | What some women are suggesting at Fem Sap — abolishing masculine endings overnight — just seems to me the wrong way of going about it . |
| 24 | Even the figure-drawing class , ( which seems to me the dreaded end , and the model has n't even got a beautiful figure ) has produced at least one lovely charcoal drawing . |
| 25 | No I am grateful to Mr because he 's finally crystallised in my mind something that 's been bugging me the longer I stay on this council about exactly what the Tories see their role here as and it 's now very clear to me , more than ever and that is that if you want to be obstructive and negative and if you go on long enough being obstructive and negative what you can end up doing is that you 'll find yourself eventually in a position going on long enough that you can make totally meaningless speeches but at least you 'll get nice headlines in the paper and that seems to me the whole essence of the Tory strategy . |
| 26 | ‘ It seems to me the whole set-up is racist , ’ said Robyn . |
| 27 | The defendants asserted their privilege against making possibly incriminating disclosure by what seems to me the unusual step of incorporating in a summons their application to set aside the paragraphs of Buckley J. 's order which appeared likely to upset that privilege and supporting that application by affidavits expressing their apprehensions in vague terms . |
| 28 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 29 | Oh gee , tomorrow right , mum has gone to me the other day oh , there 's this woman at bridge she wants someone to baby-sit for her on Wednesday nights . |
| 30 | He found it hard to describe to me the abominable way in which he was treated in a prisoner of war camp . |