Example sentences of "[vb past] to me [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found it interesting , however , that Maxine — or Martha — experienced no anxiety due to the nearness of the sea , even when she described to me a violent storm when giant waves lashed the walls of the seaside dwellings . |
| 2 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 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 | If I got a question wrong , which I did more often than not , he would repeat it in what seemed to me a contemptuous tone until I got it right . |
| 6 | This seemed to me a poor reason for making the announcement and I told him that I strongly disapproved of his breach of trust . |
| 7 | I went into what seemed to me a Burmese restaurant . |
| 8 | Marjorie and Heather spent hours poring over cookery-books , which seemed to me a strange occupation for Oxford graduates , especially in the face of wartime rationing ; but perhaps it was a matter of the fox and the grapes , for I myself had not acquired any culinary skill . |
| 9 | What seemed to me a golden opportunity came to hand largely through Pearn 's connections with the History department in the University , to which he had now returned . |
| 10 | It seemed to me a natural thing to do . |
| 11 | Anchovy-paste sandwiches , scones and Dundee cake seemed to me an ample repast , particularly as I had a nervous , irrational distaste for eating the food of Syl 's mother in her house . |
| 12 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 13 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 14 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 15 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes , Martha 's mother , Susan Sowerby , spoke to me the other day . |
| 20 | The an the result of getting the quotient and by the time you get to looking at those you 'll integration 's hard and you will not ever say again what you said to me a long time ago that you thought integration was a lot easier than differentiation . |
| 21 | They may not have thought of it as expertise , but when people said to me a particular ward is dirty , I went and looked at it , and in a very short time , within about ten minutes , that ward had got a massive clean-up team in there , that 's the sort of thing that I felt was useful . |
| 22 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 23 | but the actual extract as , as Cath said to me the other day , you know she felt sure and I said to her you know in a full length film they could 've actually chosen a better moment |
| 24 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 25 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 26 | And I used to load the boot up and bring them and load home like in the boot of my car my Sales Manager said to me the other day , how the hell did you get bright red dust in your boot ? |
| 27 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 28 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 29 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 30 | Boswell had a fire in his ‘ most elegant ’ room overlooking the sea , but he did not sleep well because the sea made its wild noises , and the pillows were stuffed with the feathers of ‘ some sea-fowl , which had to me a disagreeable smell ’ . |