Example sentences of "[verb] to me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety . |
| 2 | Since the matter is important , I wonder if you would take the trouble to write to me again , indicating particularly whether such other arrangements as you will be making are likely to commence at an earlier date than one might otherwise suppose . |
| 3 | They used to write to me quite regularly Here you are . |
| 4 | I never did discover who he was , the son of the house or just another guest , and my own obtuseness and incuriosity now appear to me more revealing than anything else of my state at the time . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish Guido all the best in the trials , of course , ’ she added , ‘ but there 's only one thing that really matters to me now — and that 's going home as soon as I can . ’ |
| 6 | After the jump , no doubt I might simply regret not having died , but only if it no longer matters to me how I die , only if I am past caring about the value of my acts . |
| 7 | It matters to me greatly that we have a reputation for taking these big issues and dealing with them with independence and rigour . |
| 8 | It does n't appeal to me either . ’ |
| 9 | it did n't erm did n't appeal to me somehow . |
| 10 | The two colours do n't go too badly together but er I 'm not so sure that I would really want that hanging on the wall , I , it does n't really appeal to me very much . |
| 11 | I like him and read him again and again ; and his tartness , his acid humour , his honesty , his feeling for certain English types and certain kinds of English scenery do appeal to me very much . |
| 12 | I supposed , during those brief , heady moments after your heartbreaking apology that you had wanted to come to me tonight as much as I wanted you to come . |
| 13 | And ask Philip , and Griffith Fychan , to come to me here . |
| 14 | My father described to me how the Guides had arrived and gone straight into action after marching day and night from the Punjab ; how Nicholson had been killed leading the troops as they stormed the ramparts of Delhi . |
| 15 | A LABOUR MP WAS EXPLAINING to me why there are a number of his colleagues who are sponsored as MPs by the National Union of Railwaymen , but do not appear to have any connections with trains , railway junctions or signal boxes . |
| 16 | ‘ Talking about work , as we were just a moment ago … perhaps you would n't mind explaining to me why you want to reject some of the new designs I 've just shown you ? ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know what 's happening to me exactly . " |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And all the time my cut thumb reminded me of what I must forget to stay sane ; all the time sick with worry about what 's happening to me so I have to keep ordering myself : Think about the invalid . |
| 20 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 21 | Report to me tomorrow . ’ |
| 22 | See it 's come to me maybe eleven o'clock , half-past eleven in the morning . |
| 23 | See , Sue has n't come back to me , the science department has n't come to me so I 'm not , I may leave that and say , and do something like that next year in a module or wait until I 've finished again I do n't mind , that 's still something in my mind which I would like to do but because talking to the form tutor 's , what I had written down as a fait a complet erm they 're not too keen so therefore I opened up and say you know , which particular things they were interested in the banking one they are very interested in the environment one , yes , within the school tidy upping area that they would like to do but I 've got ta be able to , and I do n't when planting season is or if I wan na put , be able to put flowers in etcetera , you see what I mean ? |
| 24 | If I sa said to you , tell me , could you describe to me briefly the layout of where is it you work ? |
| 25 | He writes to me regularly . |
| 26 | Sally Gritten of the Penguin group — normally as gutsy and go-getting as any Chicago-raised American can be — writes to me thus , on tear bespattered paper : |
| 27 | No one writes to me much . |
| 28 | But I think what the Franks Report illustrates to me very , very clearly indeed is that , within a parliamentary democratic system of government , there are some issues which are insoluble in that the government of the day … are incapable of delivering through the House of Commons . |
| 29 | The only exception will be network emergencies ( i.e. network failures ) which should be reported to me immediately . |
| 30 | ‘ Dorothy , I think the best thing would be if you went home now and reported to me here , first thing tomorrow morning . |