Example sentences of "was [verb] to me [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A LABOUR MP WAS EXPLAINING to me why there are a number of his colleagues who are sponsored as MPs by the National Union of Railwaymen , but do not appear to have any connections with trains , railway junctions or signal boxes . |
| 2 | Mind you , I was n't gon na tell anybody she was writing to me anyway ! |
| 3 | It was said to me recently , by a railway enthusiast , no less , that , when you have a car , the only cost in using it is the petrol . |
| 4 | In one shape or size this was said to me often in writing this book , and always by women and girls themselves . |
| 5 | My mother 's story on the other hand was told to me much earlier , in bits and pieces throughout the fifties , and it was n't delivered to entertain but rather to teach me lessons . |
| 6 | I had to give her a little reminder now and then , to stop her attempting to fly off into the wide blue yonder , by gently pulling the leash , but within two days she was coming to me just as willingly as she had on the straight creance . |
| 7 | Fiona was saying to me today at school , oh Emma can I have a bit of your height please ? |
| 8 | Er and Mark was saying to me yesterday |
| 9 | He was illustrating to me how he would play it , but I did n't catch on immediately . |
| 10 | Erm well I 've got a little cottage that was left to me up in erm North Wales that we rent out . |
| 11 | In schools where headteachers were responsive , the information which was passed to me often provided vital insights into a child 's difficulties . |
| 12 | It was put to me recently that a guitar 's country of origin is irrelevant when determining its overall quality in the market place . |
| 13 | It was put to me very forcibly by the junior doctors that unless they had the power to withdraw their labour , how else could they ‘ get their rights ’ ? |
| 14 | you know , this woman that I , goes down the school that talks , who I talked to , she knew from Peterborough and I think she 's German , she 's got an accent , I 'm sure for certain she 's German , anyway she 's got twins in Robert 's class and she was talking to me today and she was telling me her husband moved out to move from Peterborough with his job so I said what does he do ? and she said he 's a scientist , so I said oh is he ? , |
| 15 | She was talking to me just now , before you put your oar in . |
| 16 | A detective-constable who was talking to me later told me that it 's one of the Whistler 's trademarks . |
| 17 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |