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Example sentences of "[vb past] to me [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries .
2	I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend .
3	‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’
4	When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’
5	‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin .
6	Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer .
7	No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days .
8	I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to .
9	When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure .
10	‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible .
11	Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth .
12	It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant .
13	It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness .
14	It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions .
15	It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm .
16	The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there .
17	‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time .
18	Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre .
19	And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that .
20	‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine .
21	Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ?
22	This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career .
23	‘ Two years ago Adai talked to me about the AOL .
24	Everybody talked to me in the corridor .
25	He called to me from the place .
26	" Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge .
27	Wilde 's transgressive aesthetic simultaneously confirmed and exploited this inextricable connection between the sexual and the ( apparently ) non-sexual , between sexual perversion and social subversion , and does so through Wilde 's own version of that connection : ‘ what paradox was to me in the sphere of thought , perversity became to me in the sphere of passion ’ ( Wilde , De Profundis , 466 ) .
28	My father read to me in the evening , something I looked forward to enormously .
29	All this was information that Kirsty revealed to me during the course of the regression session while she was under hypnosis .
30	But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms .