Example sentences of "[adj] to me [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Competitions now seem derisory to me after the ascent of a route of this scale ’ . |
| 2 | Now , it 's not clear to me at the moment that that is going to be the direction , say , of the Roman Catholic Church , because we seem to have a much more conservative Pope and there are conservative movements growing up in all the churches , you 've only got to look at Reagan 's America and the way you find counterparts to that kind of religious conservatism in all the European countries . |
| 3 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 4 | As a small boy I recall a very old gamekeeper ( at least , he seemed old to me at the time ) talking of gypsies having tame stoats in captivity . |
| 5 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |
| 6 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 7 | One important lesson I learned early on ( which had not been obvious to me in the past ) was that you do n't have to give everything away , do n't have to reveal yourself completely to people . |
| 8 | I wish your husband would make some good , cheap sweets , ’ she said , and then said — almost tenderly — ‘ he was very good to me in the difficult days ’ . |
| 9 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 10 | ‘ Tell Lady Franklin , ’ Gould instructed his wife in a letter to Hobart , ‘ I have her little page with me , he is a most interesting little fellow , throws the spear and waddy with the utmost dexterity and [ is ] extremely useful to me in the bush , an eye like a hawk discovers birds nests & eggs in a most astonishing manner . ’ |
| 11 | What was fascinating to me at the time , was their naming of teachers whom I also recognised , from familiarity with the five or six schools in that particular area of south Oxfordshire : I could immediately apply a cross-bearing as it were of confirmation that what indeed singled out these teachers was a vividness of personality , a cheerful infectious enthusiasm and an unusual energy and commitment . |
| 12 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 13 | It 's my work that 's important to me at the moment — I do n't have time for casual affairs . |
| 14 | That 's right , just looking at the er the tables that I 've managed to get faxed to me from the Football League today . |
| 15 | Of his death , the only reference found is the entry in Maskelyne 's account book for 13 March 1784 : ‘ Recd of Mrs Grace Sisson , thro ’ the hands of Mr Henry Robin Auctioneer my dividend for £88.14.11 due to me from the Estate of the late Jerh Sisson — £15.0.0 — and gave it to the Widow . ’ |
| 16 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 17 | AS YOU CAN imagine , the dozen or so habitations , and their inmates , became very dear to me over the years , and gradually took over from reality . |
| 18 | It must be said before we proceed further that this model is so new that no handbook was available to me at the time of writing . |
| 19 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 20 | The non-robbed make more relaxing if complacent company and Gilles , big loudmouth that he was , gave out an air of confidence that was appealing to me at the time . |
| 21 | Now Mrs Pearson was most kind to me over the sale of the house — indeed , but for her kindness I would probably never have got it . |
| 22 | But our family was too young to me in the war like me brother . |
| 23 | Yet it was then that I knew why I had come , for just distinguishable to me against the background of reciting voices , I heard my own voice . |
| 24 | Most of the people who have been close to me over the years have been paid to be . |
| 25 | I 'll probably wish I 'd never mentioned the matter , but it seems necessary to me at the moment , so there it is . |
| 26 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 27 | He does n't realize it fully yet , because he 's trying to be nice to me at the moment . |
| 28 | Unknown to me at the time , other significant dispersals had already taken place . |
| 29 | For instance , Snow White is fed by means of tubes , a procedure which , unknown to me at the time , is still a common practice in the treatment of anorexics . |