Example sentences of "[verb] to me [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 4 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 5 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 6 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |
| 7 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 8 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 9 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 10 | If they do n't respond to me in the next forty eight hours I 'm going to send them a second letter er tel . |
| 11 | And because you 'll be reading to me in the next few months when I 'm cooking and doing chores . |
| 12 | The fly , which has settled on my forehead and reads to me from the Sixth Book of the Aeneid , is the same fly which buzzes round the head of Virgil in Mantua . |
| 13 | ‘ She did come to me in the first place . ’ |
| 14 | I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed . |
| 15 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 16 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 17 | Any representations which you may have on the proposal should be sent to me within the next 10 days . |