Example sentences of "to me [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 2 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ For instance , when you asked the official you met to find you some film-makers to talk to , he rung me up and spoke to me for the first time for years . |
| 5 | And at the end of the class , near the bust of Unamuno , I heard your voice calling to me for the first time . |
| 6 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 7 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 8 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 14 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 15 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 16 | How many birds did my true love send to me on the twelfth day of Christmas ? |
| 17 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 20 | Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former . |
| 21 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | On 10 October , having arranged a meeting , he wrote to me about the earlier essay for which he had already arranged generous advanced payment : |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 26 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 27 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 28 | I 'm a member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and er because I 'm by background an electronics engineer and I was at a meeting there where a chap was giving a talk on design express lifts you know at Northampton and the Chairman stood up and introduced doctor whoever he was sat down turned round to me in the second row and said could you give a vote of thanks at the end . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Not anything like it would have been if Uncle Bill had left it to me in the first place , because it will pay duty twice . ’ |