Example sentences of "to me [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arguments , as he has presented them to me both on earlier occasions and tonight , are , indeed , seductive . |
| 2 | The disintegration of space/time was still taking place ! — only this thought came to me not in any orderly way but as a confused recollection of a passage in Shakespeare 's Julius Caesar — |
| 3 | The realism of the old heads seems to me strictly in early classical taste , and the raising and overlapping exactly in the spirit of contemporary developments in wall-painting ; and there can be no doubt at all that the design of this gable is directly and powerfully influenced by those developments . |
| 4 | ‘ Will you lend him to me just for one night ? ’ |
| 5 | They rang from the duty office to break the news to me just after nine . |
| 6 | Well , it seems to me just like that . |
| 7 | It does n't have to sound confrontational ; contrast ‘ I do n't understand what you 're talking about ’ ( sub-text : ‘ you are inept at talking ’ ) with ‘ I 'm sorry I 'm so dim [ mock disclosure — and quite appropriate in my opinion , given the indirect nature of conversation ] , but could you explain that to me again in plain English ? ’ ( sub-text : ‘ I 'm not understanding you , so can you say it differently ? ’ ) |
| 8 | I asked erm Ian yesterday to try and give me the dates so I , I 'm , I expect him to come back to me today with some idea on that . |
| 9 | ‘ By the time you 'd ripped my character to shreds , lectured me on my grasping capitalist principles , then forced yourself to be nice to me out of commendable loyalty to your family firm , I was hooked . |
| 10 | ‘ In fact , Mr Stevens , ’ she called , ‘ I would ask you from now on not to speak to me directly at all . ’ |
| 11 | I 've had indirect help through the Arts Centre and the Traverse Gallery but I 've never had funding paid to me directly in any way or prizes or anything like that . |
| 12 | And I was sponsored to be bored to death by a friend , who talked to me non-stop for three hours . ’ |
| 13 | Speak to me once in loving tones of better things . ’ |
| 14 | seems to me though at that age you 've got freshness and initiative |