Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to me [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post .
2 In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years .
3 My hon. Friend takes a close interest in the prosperity of companies in his constituency and has written to me about that case .
4 With this in mind , Neal Taylor has written to me from South Devon with a request for a simple battery indicator .
5 ‘ He has talked to me about what happened , and I think that helps .
6 Yes , one , one thing has occurred to me about this in trying to deal with forms , it seems to me that trying to put a date on a day on it , is absolutely hopeless .
7 I think you can , I , I 've , the same argument has occurred to me in relation to special schools .
8 ‘ But since he has lied to me about marrying me , I will no longer keep his secrets . ’
9 Except for permitting me to believe that he was a single gentleman — a fault he can not be excused for — he has behaved to me with generosity and honour .
10 It is an a matter where Miss has spoken to me about this particular case and it
11 And he did say to me well he has spoken to me about it , he did say answering the telephone .
12 And I can , the number of times this has happened to me with school video machines
13 I may now have an inkling of what has happened to me over the last few years ; I may have lined up a few suspects , even tentatively put my finger on ‘ who done it ’ ; I may have my own private detectives working alongside the regular police , and we may have made an arrest or two , but the file has not been closed .
14 What has happened to me in the group is that my own perceptions of myself and others have been modified by group norms , which may only be mine marginally .
15 I 've had a wonderful run , and I 've enjoyed it hugely and I just ca n't say what it has meant to me over the past four marvellous Ryder Cups .
16 Exultation comes and goes , but here again for the while I suppose it has returned to me in preparation for that step back into the radiant arc of omnipotence which is only given on this earth to the narrator in or of a novel .
17 No but you would 've said to me to , you know I had no one there Catriona , I was the only girl in the shack I was the only girl there and it was just so
18 I began to dislike her ; she looked sly and I felt indignant that she 'd spoken to me like that .
19 She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it .
20 In fact , I 'd go so far as to return a compliment I 've had paid to me by men many times over in my eventful life .
21 It was a Saturday night and I had a fortnight of holiday ahead of me while the Airds were unexpectedly away , not to speak of the obligatory Sunday to get through , the one that would have fallen to me in any case .
22 Otto must have talked to me for hours that day .
23 Teachers would come up smiling — not having spoken to me since the first year and now I was a sixth former .
24 As a works convenor , I work along twenty shop stewards , and I can tell this Congress that the message that they 've given to me from the people from the people that have elected them , is that they 're sick and tired of the perpetual bleating of the T U C about how they have to abide by the laws , when the only laws that are there are the laws that are bringing this movement down .
25 Ever since my mother had explained to me at Culloden Moor long ago that the English and the Scots were different peoples , I had been intensely proud of my Scottish origins and of Scotland 's history as an independent nation .
26 They had come to me for help in extricating themselves from satanism because the high priest had insisted on performing the ‘ Act of Unity ’ with their fourteen-year-old daughter .
27 But my present belief is that if Profumo had come to me for advice ( and my advice , of course , would only have made sense if one postulates that Profumo would have told me the truth ) , I would have recommended that he should throw in the towel ; assert that he had no intention of allowing his private life to be discussed in public ; apologise to the Prime Minister for the embarrassment he had caused both to him and to the party , and withdraw rapidly .
28 I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself .
29 The links between what the medical profession had done to me in British patriarchy and the cruelties and outrages perpetuated by every patriarchy throughout the world were glaringly obvious .
30 Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’
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