Example sentences of "[vb past] to me [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He demonstrated to me an Ergoline 35-tube sunbed in which a man lies full length . |
| 2 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr O'Hare came to me a number of times complaining that he was being pestered . |
| 6 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 7 | And there seemed to me a safety , a kind of warmth in such numbers . |
| 8 | There seemed to me no chance of the necessary chain of events being completed . |
| 9 | It seemed to me an absurdity . |
| 10 | Written as a result of attending a Labour Party conference , it was the product of shock at what then seemed to me the amount of time and energy politicians and journalists spent chasing each other 's tails on such occasions . |
| 11 | Jean-Claude repeated to me every detail of the conversation and the argument that ensued . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " They words " , cries out Jeremiah , " became to me a joy and the delight of my heart ; for I am called by thy name , O Lord , God of hosts . " |
| 14 | I clutched to me the note I had written to Sylvia Grey . |
| 15 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 16 | ‘ But Tatyana Nowak said to me a number of Poles had a grudge against Mills for something or other — she did n't say what , and I had no chance to find out . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The Lord said to me the day before , ‘ You 're not going to make it out of your heat tomorrow ’ . |
| 18 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |