Example sentences of "he [verb] to i [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Mackerel , Ron ! " he whispered to me on the bridge . |
| 2 | He read to me from Brendan Behan 's The Borstal Boy . |
| 3 | He referred to me as his ‘ Princess ’ and I referred to him as ‘ the Prince ’ ! |
| 4 | Yeah he mentioned to me about a month ago well I think it was at Christmas , it was probably at Christmas time |
| 5 | ‘ We 're not going to pay skilled workers $18 an hour to clean phone booth ’ , he says to me in an aggressive tone of voice . |
| 6 | Then he muttered to me from the corner of his mouth . |
| 7 | Later that afternoon he came to me with some of my translations from the index cards . |
| 8 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 9 | He came to me for stuff to forget all that . |
| 10 | I was on the board of the bank then , and he came to me for advice about a takeover bid for his company . |
| 11 | ‘ He came to me for help and those men murdered him ! |
| 12 | and then he came to me as a last hope |
| 13 | ‘ He came to me from a very reliable source . ’ |
| 14 | He seemed to me to be showing diminishing interest in the enquiry , turning his tidily brushed head away to look out of the window instead . |
| 15 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 16 | ‘ But Ellen , ’ she cried , staring horrified at him , ‘ how dare he speak to me like that ! |
| 17 | ‘ How dare he speak to me like that ? |
| 18 | He turned to me with a pair of calipers in his hand . |
| 19 | He turned to me in dumbfounded fury . |
| 20 | And when he turned to me before leaving he appeared to be still in a state of shock . |
| 21 | Why does he refuse to meet any groups other than farmers , as he confirmed to me in the House on 17 February ? |
| 22 | I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ . |
| 23 | He sounds to me like a man who 's running scared … ’ |
| 24 | I said yes thinking Mozart would be lovely , and not thinking any more of it until he stuck to me like a limpet |
| 25 | As he bowed to me in that tight state , I almost believe I saw creases come into the white of his eyes . |
| 26 | He clicked the intercom again and said , ‘ Miss Bassett , all calls regarding the Briant project are to he switched to me from here on in . |
| 27 | He called to me from the place . |
| 28 | ‘ He called to me from a winter place . |
| 29 | He seems to me to be swimming in dangerous waters here , but then Mr Evans-Pritchard probably knows that Rigoberta Menchu has better things to do with her prize money than spend it on litigation . |
| 30 | He seems to me to be the symbol of innocence . |