Example sentences of "[vb past] to me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It never occurred to me at all . |
| 2 | ‘ To tell you the truth it never occurred to me until this minute . |
| 3 | All his mystical religion thing , his faddishness about food , his belief in being close to nature , following nature … all that appealed to me at first . |
| 4 | ‘ A 28-year-old girl came to me with terrible complications . |
| 5 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 6 | And long after Dana had left me , I still thought of him every day , and from time to time wrote poems about him , like this one which came to me after several viewings of a film that greatly disturbed and fascinated me , Pasolini 's Teorema : |
| 7 | I could not have conceived of any circumstances in which it would have been sensible for any particular political group to murder Gaitskell , and the likelihood that it was murder — in such an immensely complicated fashion — seemed to me at first blush fanciful and absurd . |
| 8 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 9 | It happened to me on one occasion when I was about ten . |
| 10 | Just the same thing happened to me on one of my first jobs . |
| 11 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 12 | I 'll be telling most some of the tales about that time , and then the other tales will be about what happened to me in sixty nine when I started up , because the changing legislation s more or less said that if you had a vehicle of thirty hundredweight or less you could move an er wh whoever 's furniture you liked anywhere you wanted to . |
| 13 | That parallel world really exists , and what happened to me in 1978 was that I unwittingly blundered into it . ’ |
| 14 | She turned to me at one point , after going non-stop for twenty hours , and said : " I just ca n't remember your name " . |
| 15 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 16 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 17 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 18 | Letterman confided to me after one of our tennis games that my pieces in Manhattan had always struck him as somewhat trivial — artifices — until he read my piece ‘ Drancy , Ante-chamber of Death ’ . |
| 19 | It 's not easy to find words for what the two of them meant to me at that time . |
| 20 | The lack of good results is here explained by faulty equipment ( an explanation also offered to me by other students ) ; however , students gain higher marks for lab work if the results are ‘ correct ’ than if they are wrong but adequately accounted for : |
| 21 | The lacquered fingerboard felt to me like those few maple-boarded Les Pauls that Gibson made during the late '70s/early '80s . |
| 22 | ‘ I just said , it looked to me at first as though it was a woman , then just something made me think it might be a man . ’ |
| 23 | They listened to me with profound attention , and I could see that my words went home . |
| 24 | The AOC No 6 Group complained to me about this , so I suggested that he keep the culprit for a week and then send him back . |
| 25 | I am most grateful , therefore , to James Freeman , chairman of the PLC who spoke to me on this matter . |
| 26 | ‘ He was so furious , he hardly spoke to me at all . ’ |
| 27 | she spoke to me about that erm |
| 28 | I thought that , and I 'm not an expert in but I thought this was a penetrating critique and all goes well for how the department is handling in a very difficult starting situation , a most important matter but there is Mr spoke to me about this paper and er I think we will have to hear what Mr had to say , I do n't know who 's going to report that . |
| 29 | One young teacher working in a more conservative college spoke to me of this period with some amusement . |
| 30 | I do n't know if you want them , he said to me like that you see . |