Example sentences of "to me [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A because the work has n't been done What I 'm trying to do is er to say give a balanced approach which seems to me to reflect the County Council 's view that er you really ca n't do it on the basis of a a a quick subjective assessment , it really needs to be the result of a l of a detailed body of work .
2 But I 'm unconvinced by the pause Marriner inserts between the main section and trio , which seems to me to lessen the effect of the oboes ' pivotal , punning Gs that lead into the trio 's C major .
3 it seems to me to perform the functions which we were er seeking through through the proposed Policy three .
4 I 'm sure the council do a lot of good work and it should n't fall to me to propagate the views of the monopolistic , right-wing press .
5 I found myself lying to her , although my lies seemed to me to represent the truth as soon as I was out of Aisha 's house .
6 These advantages appear to me to outweigh the disadvantages identified by Mr of there being more outsiders in the family household , possibly homesick and unhappy carers who are not living in their own homes , but at the establishment and the trouble and worry to the of what would be not infrequent , recruitment of new carers for Mrs , I hope perhaps a trifle pessimistically thought that on average carers would not spend more than about a year of course , some longer , some shorter , because such carers necessarily had to be fairly young , fit , strong people and the stresses and strains of the er the whole business she thought would lead to reasonably rapid turnover , not the emergence of long-term carers who might stay for a number of years , er , as I say I 'd rather hoped that she may be unduly pessimistic about that , but , that , I accept what she says about it .
7 It 's now up to me to use the opportunity to breakthrough . ’
8 I came across him when I was about 14 or 15 , and although I 'd played Chet Atkins-style fingerpicking before , it had n't occurred to me to use the bottleneck in conjunction with fingerpicking .
9 The common claim the that the stories are remarkable for their even tone seems to me to miss the point .
10 Adorno seems to me to situate the problem , without necessarily being the solution to it .
11 The reply given by Mrs. Bottomley centred around trade barriers not being acceptable and the answer appeared to me to contradict the action taken by America where President Bush has stated that Japanese imports are to be restricted .
12 The submissions made to your Lordships on the basis of the history of eleemosynary corporations do not seem to me to justify the drawing of such a distinction at the present time once it is accepted that certiorari can be available ( as in Thomas ) on some grounds .
13 Chloe says to me does the post office pay you ?
14 It seemed queer to me to see the windows all dark and the curtains still not drawn …
15 ‘ I feel it 's up to me to put the record straight . ’
16 Thus inauthentic languageusing behaviour might well be effective language-learning behaviour , but to call the latter ‘ authentic ’ seems to me to confuse the issue .
17 It seems to me to magnify the difficulty of that particular operation if it has to be conducted under any sort of time pressure which the arrangements for the hearing on 3 February 1992 seemed to entail .
18 It does not seem to me to address the problem to say that if the producers produce the programmes the audience will supply the criticism .
19 It seems to me to reduce the passport to what it generally is in practice , a not too efficient identification card , of which few authorities take much real notice .
20 ‘ Mr. Howell 's argument , which found favour with Simon Brown J. , seems to me to approach the question from the wrong end .
21 Since eyesight requires that I do most of the close-up camera work , it fell to me to film the creature crawling slowly across Lorne 's fingers .
22 This bears some resemblance to the definition communication referred to in Chapter 2 and seems to me to generalize the meaning of the term authenticity to the point where it ceases to have much significance .
23 There was an embarrassing moment when I thought he was walking over to me to begin the programme and I got up to greet him .
24 I feel very sad that it 's fallen to me to make the decision to close after 4 generations .
25 I ca n't see what , what the objection is to me making the paragraph stronger .
26 Apart from that , I do not think that I learned a great deal from Conservative Members ' contributions to the debate — except , perhaps , that the hon. Member for Chelmsford ( Mr. Burns ) , who is not noted for his breadth of vision , does not like Labour councillors , which did not seem to me to advance the argument very much .
27 Over-dependence on the behavioural elements of sexual therapy seems to me to run the risk of ignoring the underlying emotional factors .
28 They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them .
29 They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them .
30 They 've just unveiled their first range of beers and , as one with some experience of these things , it fell to me to run the rule over them .
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