Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to me [det] " in BNC.

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1 TEARDROP EXPLODES Vox Teardrop & Phantom XII Looking cool is something that rarely happens to me these days , but strapping on either of these reissued Vox guitars it 's hard to tell if it 's grey hairs or ice …
2 My failure to even get interviewed soon demonstrated to me that , even though Goldsmiths had accepted me despite my disability , I would have to fight very hard to get any further .
3 It just occurred to me that Tuesday would be another opportunity to talk to Julian , the guy who comes in and does the S U legal aid stuff .
4 Which just came to me that moment .
5 You 've not talked to me all day and then it 's that sort of thing .
6 It had not occurred to me that alternative arrangements could or would have been made , but , the more I thought about it , the more leaving the school seemed like the most sensible thing to do .
7 Morning Jo Morning Margaret Morning Paula Oh she 's not speaking to me this morning Paula .
8 Anyway , he has not spoken to me all day . ’
9 ‘ My life does not belong to me any more , Miss Everdene , but to you .
10 As for the English speaking , a child of far more than three has no difficulty learning Italian and is so far from being wedded to the tongue he has begun with that he forgets it within a few months so do not say to me that is an obstacle .
11 ‘ I left Rhydoldog for ever ’ , Laura was to write later , ‘ on an early April day when the wild daffodils were smothering the banks of the old water garden and thousands more nodded to me all the way down the lovely driveway to say farewell . ’
12 I would like , Chairman , to know , because er , it always seems to me that unnecessary money is spent in , in the American lead , so it 's difficult to get any money .
13 An American once said to me that British Midland 's habit of giving out boiled sweets before take off was a ‘ quaint gesture ’ .
14 Ail these questions — and there are many more — also suggest to me another bigger question , the one that Victoria had noted , the extent of my own involvement .
15 Only if it had been clearly demonstrated to me that trust status would involve a positive move in that direction would I allow such status to be assumed .
16 But they also prove to me that television is capable of handling myth and that , in confining the medium largely to information and ephemeral diversion , we underestimate its aesthetic potential.M.B .
17 Right planners , now according to me this is for Thursday , next Thursday week t week one Thursday so homework for Thursday finish writing a list er whoever 's giggling will you calm down of things you believe are important do this in rough and I think we 'd better underline the next bit , bring it to the lesson now , quite seriously if you have only managed to get five or six items at the moment on your list that you think are important , that 's not enough , you really do need to be going for a minimum of ten , and if you ca n't then the next piece of work that we 're going to do in the lesson next week is going to be quite difficult .
18 Unfortunately she now clings to me all the time and I find it terribly embarrassing and uncomfortable .
19 ‘ Well , you must remember , Mr McKillop , that the information I got from Elsie on that topic was n't given to me all at one time .
20 Taking responsibility would mean you would say , ‘ I felt upset when you did n't speak to me this morning . ’
21 It did n't occur to me that criticism coming from an American of American business might be acceptable , but from someone like me , was much much harder to take .
22 Mary Vorse pinpointed ‘ the time when old age finally claimed me ’ as the ‘ moment when my two boys were more thoughtful of me , when they did n't come to me any more with their perplexities . ’
23 they do n't belong to me either of them .
24 Do n't talk to me any more then !
25 ‘ But your body did n't lie to me this afternoon .
26 Erm I 've also received information on conference accommodation and on the billboards but I 've billed those as separate items so that you do n't listen to me half off all evening .
27 It sometimes seemed to me that animal rights must always prevail over every other claim , however strong , including claims from the environment .
28 It never occurred to me that other children were n't spoiled as a matter of course , the way I was , and it would be years — and my father would be dead — before I understood that the expense of sending me to a boarding school was just an excuse , and the simple , sentimental truth was that they knew they would have missed me .
29 You never listen to me these days . ’
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