Example sentences of "it [verb] [prep] me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | It looks to me on the plan , |
| 4 | ‘ It came from me in the first place , did n't it ? |
| 5 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 6 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 7 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 8 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 9 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 10 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 11 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 12 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 13 | Now it sounds to me like the final stages of a marriage : two separated parties , screwed to their own particular pieces of floor , uttering routine chatter while the rain begins to fall . |
| 14 | That operation as I understand it is certainly either available on the National Health or er likely to be available on the national health I have not understood that it is the sort of operation which will for any reason suddenly need to be done and I bear in mind that the plaintiff has had already an operation on his hip done on the National Health , it seems to me on the probabilities that there is a very strong probability that that operation will be done on the National Health and not done privately and for that reason it does not seem to me right to include any sum in relation to that in the damages . |
| 15 | It seems to me about the most you can ask of the human body . |
| 16 | ‘ It seems to me like the perfect time for a little humour . ’ |
| 17 | But let me say here that that was just how it looked to me at the time ; that there was a nice logic to it , that Boy 's beginning matched O 's ending , that Boy 's first night was O's last , or it certainly would have been his last if Boy had not fallen into his arms . |
| 18 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 19 | How it grew upon me in the night , he wrote . |