Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] to me the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 2 | What someone said to me the other night is that you 've got 75% of it and that 's good . |
| 3 | Here is the verse and chorus which appealed to me the most . |
| 4 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
| 5 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
| 6 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
| 7 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 8 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
| 9 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
| 10 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
| 11 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
| 12 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
| 13 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |
| 14 | ‘ See , ’ said Renwick pointing to his balding pate , ‘ that 's what happened to me the last time I did n't stop ! ’ |