Example sentences of "[vb past] to me at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was therefore delighted when one day in May they suddenly reported to me at Luqa . |
| 2 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 3 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 6 | The idea appealed to me at once , a plane full of women who , as soon as they arrived in Corfu would pounce on the natives of the island . |
| 7 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 8 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Thus death has been ever close to me — so close that it seemed to me at times that I could reach out and touch it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 15 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 16 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 17 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 18 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 19 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 23 | So I felt inexpressible gratitude to you for giving me the support and care of that relationship , however attenuated it appeared to me at times : |
| 24 | As one wag said to me at the time , ‘ Only R is different ’ . |
| 25 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 26 | I think that also that said to me at the point that there is , people need to er , be paid attendance because otherwise you deny people the opportunity to be able to stand for council , there , otherwise you are going to end up with those that are either rich or retired as the only people who can attend a council which , and therefore we must remember that and make sure those who want to have the opportunity to participate in local government are actually compensated for their , for their erm , for their work . |
| 27 | and I remember doing my first , one of my first essays erm saying that I did n't think they were and all that they were erm was the fact that er er of and you said to me at the end that 's fine as far you 've argued it but I think you 'll change your views as you go on and I do n't know if I have . |
| 28 | The person whom I was going to take over the job from said to me at the end of the meeting well what do you think of that meeting and I must admit I the answer and luckily somebody else instructed with some other business and I felt I got off the hook here but in fact that got dealt with very quickly and he came back to me and said well what did you think of the meeting and I had to say to him just one word , was the way I put it . |
| 29 | Yeah but you say to her that they 're always on about how s Shrimpy ca n't do anything for himself , and it 's between Emma , it 's not between it was al even Scott said to me at the beginning oh it 's not between me , it 's nothing to do with me , it 's between Emma and Scott . |
| 30 | If any of your readers has any interesting photographs or stories , I would be glad if they wrote to me at the address below . |