Example sentences of "[vb past] to i [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more cogent reasons for Ms Brown 's correct conviction are to be found in Lady Diana 's own words , which I quote from Philip Ziegler 's biography and which amply confirms others , just as forceful , that she used to me in the course of our more than 40 years of close friendship : I never responded to his dribbling , dwarfish little amorous singeries . |
| 2 | It occurred to me for the first time that he might not know whether or not I 'd lost the baby . |
| 3 | I accepted this as natural ; it never occurred to me at the time that a housemaster could also be a friend . |
| 4 | ‘ It occurred to me at the time , ’ said Ian carefully , thinking that two could play at infant teaching , ‘ that it was candlelight , not , that is to say ’ — he managed contempt in his tone with no effort at all — ‘ electric light . ’ |
| 5 | When he initially came to me with the novel , I thought , ‘ Victor 's a Rasta , it 's going to be something about Haile Selassie . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The composer came to me with the piece , which had written with me in mind , ’ says Lin . |
| 7 | Agassi 's coach came to me with the rackets . |
| 8 | Aunt Louise came to me at the end of the summer . |
| 9 | When Pat came to me in the autumn of 1989 she was suffering from osteoarthritis of the neck and spine with accompanying raised blood pressure . |
| 10 | I waited until you came to me in the hospital , I had to . |
| 11 | ‘ When they came to me in the summer , some of the shirts they offered were horrible . |
| 12 | No more than an hour passed before Jean-Claude came to me in the scullery and said he would be away for a few days . |
| 13 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 14 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 15 | It seemed to me at the time that this fact did not square with claims that the Bible was inerrant . |
| 16 | It seemed to me at the time that the teachers of science at school , who had certainly shown themselves to be opposed to me were , if not actually off their trolleys , a trifle on the demented side and undoubtedly strangers to coolness . |
| 17 | It seemed to me at the time that the Tanzanian Government feared that papers could be used as mouthpieces for dissident political groups anxious to advance their own positions . |
| 18 | It seemed to me at the time that I was doing something other than trying to keep myself warm . |
| 19 | The park had a few fairly large hills ( or so it seemed to me at the time ) topped by a castle , a lake with a river running through it and quite a few trees scattered here and there . |
| 20 | ‘ I can see how you might think it was insincere , but that was n't how it seemed to me at the time . |
| 21 | Britain , in the mid-1970s , seemed to me like the promised land of progressive education . |
| 22 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 23 | Nothing happened to me on the way to the theatre . |
| 24 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 25 | This happened to me on the Seven Mile Straight at recently , a lorry coming in the opposite direction in spite of road signs . |
| 26 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 27 | It will always be a mystery , a thing that happened to me like the seasons , like floods and lightnings , without question or escape . |
| 28 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 29 | ‘ Only one thing of importance happened to me in the Argentine . |
| 30 | I have no memory of anything that happened to me in the last ten years . ’ |