Example sentences of "[verb] to me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ What matters to me in this cooperative , ’ he wrote to his wife from Helsinki , ‘ is that they are all well-established people , with left-wing sympathies .
2 I 'm afraid not , Miss Holbrook ; that idea does n't appeal to me at all . ’
3 ‘ I 'm here strictly for business and being dissected does not appeal to me at all .
4 Well , I yes , yes , I does n't appeal to me at all .
5 Send to me in any event .
6 A lot of personal things had been happening to me during that year .
7 But I watched , out of a sense of duty admittedly , most of the election news programmes , feeling all the time , these are not relating to me in any way .
8 In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years .
9 Further to my note of 11th December , Susannah Wainman of SAWD Books writes to me with more details of the competition for a new logo for the Independent Publishers Guild .
10 Well every time I send something out writes to me on bloody DOPACS saying this is not the way to disseminate this information .
11 If the hon. Gentleman writes to me about any individual cases , I shall respond in detail .
12 It never occurred to me at all .
13 ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute .
14 That is not a matter where the parties are sufficiently advanced for it to be addressed to me at this stage .
15 Idealised versions of life in the USA , for example , were often presented to me by young people who had watched many films and television programmes , as well as talking with foreigners .
16 1991 , 27 1042 ) , prompted a childhood memory and sent me rummaging at the top of the house for 300 Things a bright boy can do , a book presented to me by some relative ca 1928 .
17 I pictured this Somebody as a kindly woman sitting on the other side of a roaring log fire knitting a thick brown woollen sweater and listening to me with rapt attention .
18 A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon .
19 Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway .
20 Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up .
21 if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical
22 Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’
23 ‘ I wish you would not speak to me like that .
24 ‘ Do n't you dare speak to me like that , Agnes .
25 ‘ How dare you speak to me like that !
26 ‘ Do n't speak to me like that !
27 ‘ By God , you wo n't speak to me like that .
28 You ca n't speak to me like that .
29 How dare you speak to me like that in public ! ’
30 " How dare you speak to me like that .
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