Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] to me the " in BNC.
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1 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
2 | Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world . |
3 | Cos she said to me the other day , she said have you been in my room and touched ? |
4 | she said to me the other day , has my mummy been in ? |
5 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
6 | And then he described to me the first time he and Montaine had happened upon it . |
7 | ‘ To be sure , the lad 's name is Gabriel , and he came to me the very day I was needing an angel . |
8 | Of course , he does not care a rap whether it is true or not — but he is dreadfully afraid that by prematurely espousing it he might lose some subscribers , though he acknowledged to me the other day he thought it would be generally accepted before long . ’ |
9 | I dare not ask directly what is the precise matter but I see in Mr Browning 's eyes an anxiety deeper than usual and he confessed to me the other day that he fears there may be water on the lung . |
10 | He hinted to me the week before the event that he would n't mind a rest one day and I thought about that and thought about it again when we got to The Belfry . |
11 | It did to me the first time we stayed . |