Example sentences of "to me [prep] a [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 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 7 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Would you talk to me for a few minutes ? ’ |
| 10 | It could also mean ‘ Will you talk to me for a few minutes , I feel sad . ’ |
| 11 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 12 | ‘ Then perhaps you could make a small room available to me for a few hours ? |
| 13 | He rented me a projector , and because he wanted to retire sold his movies to me for a few pesetas a twelve-reeler . |
| 14 | My concern for pollution was positively brought home to me on a recent weekend backpacking trip in the Dark Peak . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll report back to me on a daily basis . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 23 | Turner , Ministry 's heavily tattooed bone tech , was sitting next to me with a small sparrow 's skull placed next to his beer on the table . |
| 24 | The punk would turn to me with a conspiratorial grin — hey , man , it 's you and me against the world , eh ? — then shift the bus across with his knee . |
| 25 | But this time he drew out his knife and showed it to me with a meaningful glance . |
| 26 | As the lock slid shut , she turned to me with a merry grin . |
| 27 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 28 | I am willing to talk to anyone who comes to me with a proposed solution that they believe the House would accept — including the hon. Member for Kingston upon Hull , West and other Labour Members . |
| 29 | I remarked on this once to Mr Dakin and the old man turned to me with a wry smile . |
| 30 | Sometimes skipper Geoff Boycott would come up to me during a long spell and ask if I was feeling OK to continue . |