Example sentences of "[vb past] to me [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 2 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 3 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 4 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 5 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 6 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 7 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 8 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 9 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 10 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 11 | The lack of good results is here explained by faulty equipment ( an explanation also offered to me by other students ) ; however , students gain higher marks for lab work if the results are ‘ correct ’ than if they are wrong but adequately accounted for : |
| 12 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 13 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 14 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 15 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 16 | We discussed also the so-called ‘ spiritual , manifestations , about which Lady Byron wrote to me with great feeling . |
| 17 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 18 | We naturally renewed our invitation as soon as we learnt of the new arrangements proposed by the English Club , and he wrote to me on 25 November 1935 on Criterion writing paper : |
| 19 | Elizabeth wrote to me at this time . |
| 20 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 21 | When Vron had sobbed it all out after showing her prospective stepson photographs of herself having a handjob with no clothes on for money , she explained to me at throaty length and with hot tears still foiling the points of her lashes — that she had always been creative . |
| 22 | The point was — as he explained to me throughout that autumn and the winter that followed — to understand that habit was ritual , and ritual was habit . |