Example sentences of "to me [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people look to me as a new Messiah . |
| 2 | On a personal note , in my very early days on the staff of Ipswich Art School , Squirrell was teaching and I have very fond memories of the kindness and helpfulness which this most likeable man extended to me as a new boy . |
| 3 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 4 | They inter-linked into a plasma of enormous strength , and to me as a young man they formed a Mafia that made the Sicilian one look like choirboys . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 7 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 8 | ‘ It has been described to me as an isolated house in the midst of fields , through which are only rough and rutty waggon tracks , and I have been told too , that it is hidden from passers along the road by a dark grove of trees . |
| 9 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 10 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 11 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 12 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 13 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 14 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 15 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 16 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My concern for pollution was positively brought home to me on a recent weekend backpacking trip in the Dark Peak . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll report back to me on a daily basis . |
| 21 | The changeling character is Sandra Bernhard , who is perched next to me on a gilt-covered chair in a mirrored room high up in the House of Dior . |
| 22 | Jessica answered all such charges in her autobiography ‘ Fame Is A Song ’ a copy of which , suitably inscribed , she presented to me on a subsequent New York visit . |
| 23 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 24 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 25 | These were the seductive amusements of my youth : they have clung to me through a long life , and they are now the solace of my old age . ’ |
| 26 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 29 | ‘ Gardening vexeth the spirit , ’ my dad used to say to me with a broad wink whenever my mum asked him to get out and cut the lawn . |
| 30 | When the red light went out after my closing announcement , Mr Murray turned to me with a broad grin ‘ Was that all right ? ’ he asked , and I shook his hand acknowledging his ad-lib masterpiece . |