Example sentences of "and it [verb] to me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 2 | I became at once possessive about it … there was already talk about the war ending and Sadler 's Wells reopening and it seemed to me entirely fitting for the Sadler 's Wells Company to reopen the theatre at Rosebery Avenue after the war with a new opera by a leading young English composer . |
| 3 | They would have to disclose all memoranda , manuscripts and correspondence relating to the transaction , and it seemed to me almost inconceivable that this disclosure could enable the culprit still to be concealed from exposure . |
| 4 | And it came to me later , as I began to love Stuart , this thought : please do n't let him be disappointed . |
| 5 | And it seems to me perfectly understandable that the local planning authorities in the county would like to take one hundred percent control of the unbuilt upon part of the county . |
| 6 | In this sense , therefore , every society has a political system — a body of rules and practices , however informal , rudimentary and unspecific , which constitutes the framework ( itself subject to change ) within which such struggles , involving confrontations between different possible courses of action , normally take place — and it seems to me entirely erroneous and misleading to speak , as some Marxists have done , about societies in which there is no ‘ political level ’ . |
| 7 | With a careless shrug , he says : ‘ My flat was burgled last year and it occurred to me then not much of it was important . ’ |
| 8 | And it applies to me equally with them . |