Example sentences of "[verb] to me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 2 | Well , since he did not appeal to me in the slightest , the whole business became a terrible bore . |
| 3 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 4 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 5 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 6 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 7 | The coy attitude with which the Press still view this and other sexual matters is illustrated by the experience recounted to me by a well-known columnist . |
| 8 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |
| 9 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 10 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 11 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 12 | She lived at New Houses , and was related to me in a mixed up kind of way — her father and my grandmother were cousins , but what that made me to Miss Bayles I can not imagine ! |
| 13 | Kinsmen , in this sense , are related to me in a special private way . |
| 14 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 15 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
| 16 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 17 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 18 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 19 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 20 | My Pop came to me with an old Army pistol in his hand , knelt beside me and said , ‘ If you want me to kill him , I will . |
| 21 | George Kidner came to me in a great state of mind because he has been asked to appear before a committee consisting of C. Bathurst , Peto & C. Mills & sitting at Central Office . |
| 22 | MUCH OF THE INTERIOR OF MY FATE AND THAT OF JEAN-Claude 's was revealed to me in the opaque , vaporous interior of la Sologne . |
| 23 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 24 | So it was , I assume , that he felt immediately able to talk to me in a businesslike and trusting way , and by the end of our meeting , he had left me with the administration of a not inconsiderable sum to meet the costs of a wide range of preparations for his coming residency . |
| 25 | Some time before he had asked me if I knew this most neglected of novelists , coming up to talk to me in a blue-green Athenian bar from which he was almost at once to be evicted for a splendid falsetto rendering of ‘ The Lost Chord ’ . |
| 26 | He first tried to talk to me in an English pub . |
| 27 | I am concerned and I have mentioned briefly to Mr erm something which was er said to me by a local resident who 've read the paper this morning that British Rail are gon na start using their car parks to hold er car boot sales . |
| 28 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 29 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 30 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |