Example sentences of "[be] [verb] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would like this to be explained to me as I just do n't understand it . |
| 2 | He said , ‘ In order to prevent literary contracts being held up , I also suggest that a general power of attorney be given to me again only in a limited area and only to be used if Elinor be indisposed . ’ |
| 3 | The only exception will be network emergencies ( i.e. network failures ) which should be reported to me immediately . |
| 4 | The crisis passed , somewhat to my surprise , and I would not dismiss the possibility that Eliot , acting so as to ensure that the information should not be disclosed to me , had something to do with it . |
| 5 | How dare you pretend to be attracted to me ? |
| 6 | That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage . |
| 7 | There was ‘ the moment of truth ’ and ‘ it ca n't be happening to me … ’ feeling . |
| 8 | This ca n't be happening to me , Kate would never get herself into this sort of situation . |
| 9 | Can this really be happening to me ? |
| 10 | ‘ Same must be happening to me , ’ he said . |
| 11 | It ca n't be happening to me . |
| 12 | Oh sweet Jesus , how can this be happening to me ? |
| 13 | The sheets smelt of Croisset — that place which I did not yet know would be forbidden to me ; there was a petal between two of my toes , and a thin scratch down the inside of my right thigh . |
| 14 | I was convinced it would eventually be revealed to me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I expected something to be said to me by the directors after recent results . |
| 16 | Do n't be writing to me either . |
| 17 | One or two of them might be related to me , but I work on the assumption that my children will have access to most things and personal experience of some . |
| 18 | By the time I arrived , breathless , my hat was being borne in triumph through the traffic to be presented to me . |
| 19 | I understand that you will be faxing to me today a request for banker 's details and credit references . |
| 20 | ‘ Even if the Mad Killer epithet will be attributed to me by the media , I consider myself a rational erudite that only the arrival of the Grim Reaper has forced to take extreme acts . |
| 21 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 22 | Churches long sealed with all their histories in them were to be opened to me this day . |
| 23 | ‘ But she wo n't be running to me any more . |
| 24 | And I left Rhos-y-Bol when I retired because I felt I they 'd have to have another nurse there , and you see the other nurse would never be able to enjoy the They would always be running to me a and it would n't be fair to another nurse . |
| 25 | Now you 'll get indigestion and then you 'll feel sick and then you 'll be moaning to me all afternoon . |
| 26 | See if I took a pension mortgage out it would be linked to me lumped into me current pension contract . |
| 27 | He 'll be saying to me is that lady coming who lives in a hole now , Bodger and Badger . |
| 28 | ‘ He told me a fortnight before he came out that he 'd be coming to me . ’ |
| 29 | I understand that the exact venue in London will be notified to me with confirmation . |
| 30 | Speculation at the top of their voices as to what fish it might be seems to me a waste of energy , but it contributes to the atmosphere . |