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 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 5 | 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 ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 10 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 19 | Forwarding a copy of this letter to his wife , he added that ‘ I quite squirm at the thought lest some successor to me in the near future should treat these chiefs in a different manner from my own ’ . |
| 20 | THANK you to the great many readers who have written to me in the past couple of weeks about the Royals . |
| 21 | 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 … |
| 22 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 23 | I spent two hours responding to questions put to me by the Select Committee only a fortnight or so ago . |
| 24 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 25 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 26 | He added : ‘ Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh said to me after the European Championship in Sweden , ‘ You 'll be surprised how you feel — it took me two years to feel they were my players . ’ |
| 27 | All Leslie 's letters to me from the sealed camp at Fairford bore ( as well as the R.A.F. censor 's stamp ) undated postmarks . |
| 28 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |