Example sentences of "to i [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hassan escorted and drove me wherever I needed to go and acted as general red-tape cutter by referring to me as the English Sheikha , friend of this or that Sheikh . |
| 2 | The Youngs were with the Unwins from Australia and Filmer and Daffodil shared a table with a pair Nell later identified to me as the American owners of the horse called Flokati . |
| 3 | ‘ Now those very first notes of Act 3 are just as important to me as the big aria . |
| 4 | although a cruise is an interesting to me as the fat poster . |
| 5 | For the first time I had an opportunity of seeing Barbara at work in detailed negotiations , and whatever small credit attached to me for the major idea , the scale and ingenuity that she expended on the detail and in making it possible to arrive at a suitable settlement was beyond praise . |
| 6 | The official referred to me to the Homeless Unit . |
| 7 | I got on the bus at the terminus at the bottom of Avondale Buildings and rode it back and forth to the other end of the line , sitting on the top deck , not knowing where I was or what I was doing , until the conductor came up to me at the other terminus , after my fifth trip , and asked : ‘ You all right , mate ? ’ |
| 8 | He will be settling his own sundry bills but I would like the invoice for the room to be directed to me at the above address . |
| 9 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |
| 10 | I was grateful for the Foreign Secretary 's friendly reference to me at the Conservative party conference , and his acceptance of my expertise on one subject — even though it was only the cinema . |
| 11 | A young woman sat with her back to me on the far side of the great fourposter bed . |
| 12 | Erm Mr referred to er put great store it seemed to me on the long term effectiveness of of of reducing er building . |
| 13 | Of course it only gradually came to mean all this to me through the succeeding years , through my memory of it . |
| 14 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 15 | Mmi Well I 'm happy , but I 'm never happy about playing Poland because it always brings back memories to me of the early seventies . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 17 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 18 | Before doing so I write to thank you all for the Loyal support and encouragement you have given to me during the past 14 years . |
| 19 | I would like and I feel humble for asking , for anyone to write to me about the above . |
| 20 | I understand you want to talk to me about the late Mr Hatton . |
| 21 | I think that a good job has been done by the ITC , but I am prepared to consider any representations that are made to me about the future determination of licences . |
| 22 | The earliest evidence known to me about the special devotion of the Fabii to Hercules goes back to Fabius Cunctator in the second Punic War ( Plin . |
| 23 | Before she left for Moscow , Semenyaka talked to me about the British public 's fond picture of Russians as a nation of artists , who dance because they need to . |
| 24 | Over dinner Fielding explained to me about the lucrative contingencies of pornography , the pandemonium of Forty-Second Street , the Boylesk dealerships on Seventh Avenue with their prodigies of chickens and chains , the Malibu circuit with the crews splashing through the set at dusk for the last degrees of heft and twang and purchase from the beached male lead on the motel floor , the soft proliferations of soft core in worldwide cable and network and its careful codes of airbrush and dick-wipe , the stupendous aberrations of Germany and Japan , the perversion-targeting in video mail-order , the mob snuff-movie operation conceived in Mexico City and dying in the Five Boroughs . |
| 25 | Harold Wilson had complained to me about the continuing hostility of the press towards him and wanted to know how to put it right . |
| 26 | Do n't talk to me about the wonderful Victoria . ’ |
| 27 | Leaving aside the phrase that the hon. Gentleman attributed to me in the early part of his question , I can reassure him that the budget for the health service will be £3.7 billion , an increase of £342 million , or 10.1 per cent . |
| 28 | I also knew that experience in working with other birds would be useful to me in the long term . |
| 29 | ‘ Pray think of a right man wt out regard to recommendations , which hitherto have not been of great service to me in the like cases , ’ the duke suggested . |
| 30 | So what happens to me in the great cultural revolution ? |