Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ T was to stop you becoming completely distraught , but I was afraid to look at you , afraid to come to you that night in case I saw fear or revulsion in your eyes . ’ |
| 2 | This happened to you some way or other ? |
| 3 | ‘ But the other committee members were in the clear compared to you two really , were n't they sir ? ’ |
| 4 | This seems to me retrogressive , and in some respects a return to the kind of thing I heard in my younger days in Oxford : ‘ One can not hope to understand A , unless one also knows about B , C , D , etc . ’ |
| 5 | All the stages that Weiser finds of ‘ advance in personal knowledge ’ , a ‘ basic transition ’ here , a ‘ discovery ’ there , one which ‘ begins to dissolve ’ the speaker 's ‘ coherent identity ’ ( a development which the sceptic may see as a rationale for the failure of an analytical method ) — stages of awareness that lead to a final collapse : all this seems to me fictitious , revealing the critic 's categories rather than the poet 's . |
| 6 | This brings to me another point when it comes to designing . |
| 7 | That seemed to me unnecessary . |
| 8 | Is could be seen as a classic example of the muddle that has been prevalent at the top of Welsh rugby except that the pressures here — unrecognisable from those in other home unions — are so many and varied that it is impossible to respond to them all , let alone resist them . |
| 9 | Hi , my name is Amy , something very strange happened to me last night . |
| 10 | Yeah but you 're supposed to listen to it all off and see . |
| 11 | I now want to draw together the four aspects of intelligent machines set out above and three prima facie features of consciousness : these three seem to me necessary criteria for any explication of consciousness , and I will suggest that the aspects of such machines already described are interestingly related to these facts . |
| 12 | Well what a lot of people say on the course is I know it 's my responsibility , but I always , I do n't always have the time to train because there 's a lot of backlog , there 's a lot of pressure , it 's and we all say to them that training is like a catch twenty two situation . |
| 13 | It all seemed to me one more way of getting people to stop thinking for themselves — a highly convenient and complacent way of life — for if you took the advice offered and made a mess of things , then it could always be someone else 's fault . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's all owing to you three that I 'll be able to go to Gridford at last . |
| 15 | ‘ We all went to them Cadillac Bar for lunch which was really good Mexican food . |
| 16 | I 'm not sure which one is better to present to you first . |
| 17 | That applies to them all . |
| 18 | That seems to me one way of dealing with inquiries about telephone numbers . |
| 19 | That seems to me outstanding work . " |
| 20 | So Ruth , she 's been led to one who was able to restore to her all that Elimelech had lost when he left Bethlehem . |
| 21 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 22 | A person born severely disabled will need a great deal of help in overcoming the effects of the disability , but they will possibly be able to adjust to it better than the person who has enjoyed perfect health and led a full , normal life and is suddenly injured or crippled by disease . |
| 23 | ‘ Liverpool have exploited that but it first came to me many years ago in a charity match at Newcastle . |
| 24 | Girls of fourteen and fifteen described to me these conflicts in their own families . |
| 25 | The defendants at the time of the victims ' deaths were presumably unconscious and it is accordingly difficult to attribute to them any mens rea . |
| 26 | But far too many listen only rarely to their children and have little to say to them that is not punitive . |
| 27 | Henry VII extended the Crown estates ; Henry VIII added to them monastic lands and developed the subsidy ; Mary restored the value of the customs duties . |
| 28 | What can As You Like It possibly mean to someone who had never been in love , or Hamlet to someone who has never felt ‘ how weary , stale , flat and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world ’ . |