Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have had one or two in recent years , mostly given to me by kind people , but things did n't work out with them . |
| 2 | As one student patiently explained to me when I asked him how he knew what results he was looking for : |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd better explain to me what it is she does as a job . |
| 4 | ‘ Why are you being so mean to me ? ’ he demanded , sprawling full-length across the bed , despite his promise to sleep on the couch , and unloosening his tie . |
| 5 | And it merely occurred to me , actually I was sitting in the unemployment benefit office and I said to them er er at one of my interviews , |
| 6 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
| 7 | Or — and this thought only occurred to me when I was out on the street and running for the hill as fast as I could — as if there was something else behind his eyes , looking out at the world , waiting for the awful moment when it would start to take apart our little corner of the planet , piece by shabby piece . |
| 8 | The second one — well , I almost hoped it would be a little shocked , as they often are , because of the idea that had suddenly come to me . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It suddenly occurred to me , ’ he says looking back , ‘ what if something serious happens there , or even a hint of something . |
| 10 | Then something suddenly occurred to me and I nearly cried with relief . |
| 11 | It suddenly occurred to me that just as I wanted the boys to dress according to Western ideas when they were in London , so the Sheikha and Sheikha Grandmother would like me to dress according to their ideas of fashion when I was with them . |
| 12 | It suddenly occurred to me that I had been so busy enjoying myself on the Mantela that I had never even opened either of them . |
| 13 | I was driving on my way through beautiful scenery in Wales where I live and it suddenly occurred to me how this would all be altered in a nuclear war . |
| 14 | And when I left home for the first time , it suddenly occurred to me that there was no reason why I should n't change it . |
| 15 | One of the kids asked about the foal and it suddenly occurred to me they 'd like to see all the mares , so I had them brought inside specially for visitors ' day . " |
| 16 | Mm I had to go back it suddenly occurred to me I 've got the back door key but it might still have been bolted . |
| 17 | Another perhaps occurred to me . |
| 18 | I now see that Travis is so smitten that he would n't accept anything but that , meeting me for the first time when I called at your apartment , you at once became very much attracted to me . |
| 19 | ‘ She is my abuelita already in my heart , Señorita Shelley — so kindly , and so understanding to me and my family . |
| 20 | ‘ It suddenly came to me what they had done . |
| 21 | It suddenly came to me . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It suddenly occurs to me that it might be pure insanity to take this loan . |
| 24 | ‘ Seems a reasonable enough request to me . ’ |
| 25 | It does n't personally matter to me , it just like feel |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been trying to remember , ever since one of your men telephoned to say somebody would be along to talk to me . |
| 27 | We were only according to me ! |
| 28 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 29 | Reverently I picked it up and buried it in our back garden — three feet down seemed to me an appropriate depth . |
| 30 | It 's only lent to me for a week |