Example sentences of "[vb pp] to me [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've just had two presented to me in the last eight months . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | Kinsmen , in this sense , are related to me in a special private way . |
| 5 | The above account was written to me in a long , beautifully typed letter . |
| 6 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 7 | ‘ At least 130 people have either rang or written to me in the last few weeks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 12 | I should be alone , and the old custom that clerks resigned on marriage was told to me in no uncertain way . |
| 13 | ‘ It was told to me by a black guy : ‘ What 's black with red stripes ? |
| 14 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 15 | Frigidity has only been better exemplified to me by the first psychotic woman I ever saw , who complained that her vagina contained a block of ice . |
| 16 | The opening of the Scherzo sounds remarkably like the twittering of birds in the trees , something I first noticed when it was played to me on an 1820s Graaf piano similar to the one owned by Schubert . |
| 17 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 18 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 19 | One hundred and twenty five years on , we know a lot more about animals and plants than Darwin did , and still not a single case is known to me of a complex organ that could not have been formed by numerous successive slight modifications . |
| 20 | These words were spoken to me with a strong American accent . |
| 21 | Keane , who is being pursued by Liverpool , Manchester United , Arsenal and Blackburn , admitted : ‘ Forest have spoken to me about a long-term contract , but I do n't want to get to the point where I am arguing over details and money . |
| 22 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 23 | I am sitting now in an arbour of rust-coloured bougainvillaea drinking lukewarm , weak coffee , brought to me in a stainless steel pot by a waiter in a starched white uniform , thinking in an aimless way about this puzzle , when I see the waiter returning . |
| 24 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 25 | That , and the electric kettle , given to me by a good friend , are a great blessing . |
| 26 | It is not it was given to me by a nice gentleman from Napier College doing |
| 27 | Will the Secretary of State take this opportunity to confirm an answer recently given to me by a junior Minister — it is in Hansard , of course — to the effect that a large number of pensioners — nearly 40 per cent . |
| 28 | This recipe was given to me by a well-travelled customer on her return from the USA . |
| 29 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 30 | Mind you Chappie has made us all laugh at times , and Deane looks as limited to me in a different way . |