Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to me [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They come here to make a success of their lives , which suggests to me that , despite all the gloomy statistics and stories that we hear from the Opposition , this is still a country of enterprise and opportunity , if one really wants to find that opportunity . |
| 2 | Well , oh my mum 's having such a fit about like on our er , exam leads like er she goes to me this morning , like my da , her and my dad were talking about it she is saying , and she 'll do it ! |
| 3 | ‘ There is one I 'd strongly tip for the future who came to me that way , though . |
| 4 | Not when you speak to me that way . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have had a bit of an accident and the car you rented to me this morning is now a burnt out shell ! ’ |
| 6 | Eh what you do to me all my |
| 7 | Never mind , she said to me this morning , she said I 've been to see a friend of yours , I said well who 's that ? |
| 8 | The people I like best of all are those who write to me several times as this gives me ‘ feed-back ’ on whether my solution to their original problem was correct , or the information I provided useful . |
| 9 | That you did not mean what you said to me that day . ’ |
| 10 | She wrote to me that |
| 11 | There 's nothing coming to me that 'll be worse than her yak-yakking all day . ’ |
| 12 | So she and Monty would stay up all night rewriting their scenes , which they presented to me each morning . |
| 13 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |
| 14 | It occurred to me such deceptive ‘ little angels ’ would not be above nicking the odd relic if they happened to come across it . |
| 15 | ‘ The means of accomplishing these points did not immediately present themselves : but early in 1765 it occurred to me that , if a communication were opened between a cylinder containing steam and another vessel which was exhausted of air and other fluids , would immediately rush into the empty vessel , and continue to do so until it had established an equilibrium : and if that vessel were kept cool by an injection , or otherwise , more steam would continue to enter until the whole was condensed ’ . |
| 16 | On our last night in Vorarlberg , watching nine-month-old Elisabeth crawling round the dining room and finding a welcome at every table , it occurred to me that , right from babyhood , children instinctively know whether they 're welcome . |
| 17 | It occurred to me that , only a generation before mine , automobiles had been fuelled by gasoline . |
| 18 | The following day , while flogging up Beinn Tulaichean , it occurred to me this is a scheme capable of considerable development , and a National Munro Exchange could be set up — computerised of course . |
| 19 | It occurred to me this was not an ideal arrangement ; I had a funny , cold feeling in the middle of dinner that perhaps we had been wrong to delay matters until this last moment , where there could be no immediate follow-up , when I must leave him the next day . |
| 20 | ‘ He proposed to me that afternoon , ’ put in Angelina apologetically . |
| 21 | He mentioned to me several cases that were outstanding and told me that he and other contractors are stopping doing work involving a Housing Executive grant because they have to wait anything up to three months to wait for payment after the work has been done . |
| 22 | I see a man up on the hill , but when as the minutes pass he does not move it occurs to me that what I am looking at must be a stone . |
| 23 | It occurs to me that ‘ mail order coffin supply ’ might be a suitable avenue to explore . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It occurs to me that , before returning the animals to the land again , a trace could be put inside each animal . |
| 25 | Anyway when the time came to , to , to stop off for short time everybody had had their turn except the union president and myself and he came to me this foreman and he said er , now John I do n't want you to think what happened between me and you will make any difference about being sent back for . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , I had an odd feeling about this fellow and it came to me many times during my short period as an Instructor . |
| 27 | As a guiding principle , it seemed to me that future business information systems must not only be able to cope with all the many individual sources of business information , but also , such systems should be able to rank those sources in importance using various appropriate criteria . |
| 28 | At this time ( the late 1970s ) , I was teaching courses in the sociology of deviance to degree and social work students , and it seemed to me that certain key ideas and insights from this work could usefully be applied to the study of child abuse . |
| 29 | But it seemed to me that , had they loved one another well , they would have been able to support one another in their tragedy . |
| 30 | Indeed it seemed to me that what they were involved in was some sort of violence , and I felt frightened . |