Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] to me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 2 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 3 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 4 | ‘ Charles was an incredible help to me at the beginning of my career , ’ said Bernard with professional earnestness . |
| 5 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 6 | He 's been a good friend to me during the war when we |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 8 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 9 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 10 | He never troubled me again — in fact , he even used to say good morning to me on the way to school . |
| 11 | Mr Harley , who made a long statement to me at the time , would doubtless have indicated if the Bawdsey site was ever raided from the sea . |
| 12 | Hotel-keeping 's double Dutch to me at the moment — but I catch on fast , Michael . |
| 13 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 14 | Some see it and have sound explanations , like one Magar lady in rural west central Nepal who gave a ten-minute lecture to me on the problems of the transference of fertility from forest to arable land , and changing uses of crop residues with increasing population pressure , that would have stood up well in a graduate seminar . |
| 15 | ‘ It was a big deal to me at the time , ’ Maria snapped , her tolerance of his perpetual self-absorption vanished along with her brilliant mood . |
| 16 | ‘ Evil ’ , she wrote , ‘ does get into bricks , tragedy into mortar , ’ It is new light to me on the properties of bricks and mortar . |
| 17 | The results of those studies were published on 25 September , and on the same day I announced the start of a three-month public consultation period during which interested parties could make written representations to me on the contents of the reports produced by Hydrotechnica . |