Example sentences of "[noun] to i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 2 | ‘ It was a big deal to me at the time , ’ Maria snapped , her tolerance of his perpetual self-absorption vanished along with her brilliant mood . |
| 3 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 4 | An extremely fat and gummy bus conductress wobbles and frets and poddles and wets on the opposite seat to me of the bus 's lower , non smokers deck in fierce counterpoint to the holey road beneath . |
| 5 | In all but one , the salesman went to great lengths to explain the engine and its features to my husband and to sell a car to me on the basis of its sleek lines or attractive upholstery . |
| 6 | Professor Ruiperez told me I need not start my classes until I was quite recovered , and the women in the office and the library spoke friendly words to me for the first time . |
| 7 | His last words to me after the match were , ‘ Do n't worry , we 'll be promoted ’ . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Evil ’ , she wrote , ‘ does get into bricks , tragedy into mortar , ’ It is new light to me on the properties of bricks and mortar . |
| 9 | In order to learn to master this sort of mismatch , simple context drills must be prepared such as the following one , in order to become accustomed to the way the word is used in German : N.B. ( to me ) indicates that it is implied in the English sentence , but not usually stated ; if stated , it would be followed by the preposition " in " , as in " Bring the books to me in the library " . |
| 10 | Hotel-keeping 's double Dutch to me at the moment — but I catch on fast , Michael . |
| 11 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 12 | I 'd accept all that , just as I accepted her usually sharp-edged attitude to me during the nearly two years of our association . |
| 13 | ‘ Charles was an incredible help to me at the beginning of my career , ’ said Bernard with professional earnestness . |
| 14 | Within three hours , a smug waiter brought a telephone to me by the pool . |
| 15 | He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump . |
| 16 | And I oh I fought hard I never wanted a baby to be born in the wok house cos the word workhouse to me in the old it was a terrible name . |
| 17 | Some see it and have sound explanations , like one Magar lady in rural west central Nepal who gave a ten-minute lecture to me on the problems of the transference of fertility from forest to arable land , and changing uses of crop residues with increasing population pressure , that would have stood up well in a graduate seminar . |
| 18 | That is why the couple whisper and point to me on the bridge . |
| 19 | The last Minister for the Arts but one , Tim Renton , made a remark to me about the difficulty of speaking up too energetically for the arts sector in the House of Commons , for fear that the other MPs would say , ‘ Ah , poor chap , he 's gone native ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 21 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 22 | He 's been a good friend to me during the war when we |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 24 | It was certainly a source of great pride to me in the nineteen sixties to be Personnel Manager of the Greenock plant , in an area which is noted to it 's erm , insecurity , to see the effects on the living standards and conditions and morale of the general community of having a manufacturing plant which had stability of labour , as well as it 's er , objectives . |
| 25 | I think that Harold himself always had a feeling , despite the nine years between us , that my succession would not make enough difference between his regime and the next , and he mentioned this argument to me on the 17th . |
| 26 | I think I just put up with it because he behaved in such extraordinary ways to me in the time I had known him , of showing affection at all ? |
| 27 | He never troubled me again — in fact , he even used to say good morning to me on the way to school . |
| 28 | The results of those studies were published on 25 September , and on the same day I announced the start of a three-month public consultation period during which interested parties could make written representations to me on the contents of the reports produced by Hydrotechnica . |
| 29 | Dragging the pad towards him he found a clean page and wrote : Dear Harsnet , I know you never answer my letters or return my calls , and I know that you handed over your notes to me on the understanding that I could do what I liked with them and not bother you , but I have to say that while there is much in them that I admire , as I will always admire much in you , no matter what , there is also much in them that seems to me to be puerile and , to put it mildly , bigoted . |
| 30 | In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside . |