Example sentences of "to me [conj] [pers pn] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently I was in Glasgow playing a show and someone remarked to me that they would like to see something written in my column about sevenths . |
| 2 | Now er before the game at the weekend , you you made a point of saying , I want Gary and Gary to show to me that they can do the business . |
| 3 | ‘ They will have a point to prove to me that they should have been on the tour . |
| 4 | The district council actually commented to me that they 'd like to see that entrance opened where that er derelict building is at the top end of Church Street car park , which would be an ideal entrance . |
| 5 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 6 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 7 | The examples in this section are Janus-like , in that the reader may interpret them metaphorically but , in the light of the examples in the previous section , it seems to me that we should interpret them as cases of underlexicalisation . |
| 8 | It seems to me that we could learn to rely on a system that could both embrace a wider ability range and discriminate within it more accurately ( both downwards and upwards ) if we adopted the structure of graded tests . |
| 9 | It occurred to me that you might plan it as one great central shed with bays let off it on each side . |
| 10 | ‘ It just occurred to me that you might have preferred to shop in the Via Veneto . |
| 11 | Did n't you admit to me that you 'd run away to the hills ? ’ |
| 12 | It had never occurred to me that you 'd object . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , you 've proved to me that you can lie . |
| 14 | It seems to me that you should leave a little time for romance . ’ |
| 15 | As much of the sulphurous pungency of garlic is also eliminated through the skin , it occurred to me that it might succeed in gassing the squatters out ! |
| 16 | People have just about got used to the new structure and it seems to me that it would behove us all to leave well alone . |
| 17 | The procedures look fine for the purchase of one-off and novel items , but it occurs to me that it would save time and effort if we established ‘ preferred suppliers ’ for standard PCs , printers , and peripherals , so that we do n't have to obtain multiple quotes and give reasons for supplier choice each time we order an off-the-shelf system . |
| 18 | As her eyes widened he added , ‘ Perhaps now you can understand the reason why I bought it and why it is so important to me that it should succeed ? ’ |
| 19 | OK , I knew I was better than anyone in my school , but it never occurred to me that I might do it as a profession . ’ |
| 20 | It seems to me that I might have my hands busy during a fight , so I 've taught this one to answer to sounds , and to react to the pressure of my thighs . ’ |
| 21 | Because it suddenly occurs to me that I might have been left alone to get on with this assignment if my divisional head had n't beamed in on my activities and seen something she did n't like in my relationship with Rainbow . |
| 22 | It never occurred to me that I might become a poet — partly because there were no books in the damp little prefab where we lived . |
| 23 | It was n't that she felt left out — ‘ in fairness , they had said to me that I could go out with them anytime , but it 's a really grotty place , and I also did n't want them to feel I was a hanger-on ’ — it was just that she had nowhere else to go . |
| 24 | ‘ I knew J B Priestley a bit and he once suggested to me that I should do what he did in the Thirties , which was to take a trip around Britain talking to people . |
| 25 | In the bustle of adapting to the new life of an MP at Westminster , it had occurred to me that I should look further at pensions . |
| 26 | ‘ People had said to me that I 'd have a lot of spare time on the film set — oh sure ! |
| 27 | I 've gone to the local Council and er unfortunately they 've said to me that I 'd have to go on a waiting list ; the housing aid have said the only thing they could offer me is bed and breakfast which I 'm sorry to say I do n't think is suitable to bring two children up in . |
| 28 | This year has been the most difficult and disturbing of my 40-year reign , but it has brought home to me that I must do everything I can to continue to carry out that duty . |
| 29 | It seems to me that I must judge the present claim in nuisance by reference to the present character of the neighbourhood pursuant to the planning permission for use of the dockyard as a commercial port . |
| 30 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |