Example sentences of "[verb] to me [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press . |
| 2 | These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it . |
| 3 | Does anybody not , does anybody object to me recording the lecture ? |
| 4 | Chloe says to me does the post office pay you ? |
| 5 | I found myself lying to her , although my lies seemed to me to represent the truth as soon as I was out of Aisha 's house . |
| 6 | These authorities seem to me to leave the developing law , if not at the crossroads , at least at the junction of two diverging roads . |
| 7 | I feel no qualms about taking sides against these contributions , nearly all of which seem to me to disregard the Criminal Law Revision Committee Report and to neglect to analyse the meaning in its context of the word ‘ appropriate . ’ |
| 8 | I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking . |
| 9 | And I , would n't have occurred to me to send the P elevens . |
| 10 | ‘ The world has changed , ’ Lagerfeld says , turning to me to explain the unlikely combination of a Chanel jacket and cycling shorts . |
| 11 | Such an approach appears to me to involve the possibility at least of an immense increase in the cost of litigation in which statutory construction is involved . |
| 12 | Thus inauthentic languageusing behaviour might well be effective language-learning behaviour , but to call the latter ‘ authentic ’ seems to me to confuse the issue . |
| 13 | I have told my childhood story because it seems to me to parallel the general evolution of a progressive , child-centred approach to learning . |
| 14 | It seems to me to magnify the difficulty of that particular operation if it has to be conducted under any sort of time pressure which the arrangements for the hearing on 3 February 1992 seemed to entail . |
| 15 | The common claim the that the stories are remarkable for their even tone seems to me to miss the point . |
| 16 | Adorno seems to me to situate the problem , without necessarily being the solution to it . |
| 17 | it seems to me to perform the functions which we were er seeking through through the proposed Policy three . |
| 18 | But I 'm unconvinced by the pause Marriner inserts between the main section and trio , which seems to me to lessen the effect of the oboes ' pivotal , punning Gs that lead into the trio 's C major . |
| 19 | A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work . |
| 20 | This bears some resemblance to the definition communication referred to in Chapter 2 and seems to me to generalize the meaning of the term authenticity to the point where it ceases to have much significance . |
| 21 | Here otherwise close associates like Bridgeman and F. E. Smith distanced themselves from Maxse , while another committed tariff reformer , his fellow editor and friend H. A. Gwynne , pointedly told him that ‘ for good or evil ’ , the Conservative party was ‘ the only weapon we have with which to achieve our purpose and help on the causes which both you and I have strongly at heart … and anything that tends to disorganize it or to destroy the efficiency of that weapon seems to me to postpone the fulfilment of our desires … |
| 22 | The golden thread approach , coupled with considerations such as that post-Darwin certain past arguments no longer hold water , together with an element of an a priori ethical stance , seems to me to provide the best concerted argument for the ordination of women . |
| 23 | Over-dependence on the behavioural elements of sexual therapy seems to me to run the risk of ignoring the underlying emotional factors . |
| 24 | But it seems to me to have the twofold advantages of first specifying with precision what it is that the parties have agreed , thus avoiding the possibility of misunderstanding or mistake , and , secondly , it enables the justices to define with greater precision points at which they may tentatively determine to depart from the agreed package . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr. Howell 's argument , which found favour with Simon Brown J. , seems to me to approach the question from the wrong end . |
| 26 | It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice . |
| 27 | I feel very sad that it 's fallen to me to make the decision to close after 4 generations . |
| 28 | It usually falls to me to sign the Christmas cards from my husband and myself , so whose name should I put first — his or mine ? |
| 29 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |
| 30 | They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them . |