Example sentences of "but he [vb past] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now as you know when we used to do the sums we used to have a little bit of paper and , and work it out on this separate bit of paper , but he said to me out of the blue he said , where did it , how did you get that figure ? |
| 2 | Eliot did not doubt the resilience or resolve of the British people ; but he remarked to me that he could not see a man like Neville Chamberlain coping with a major conflict . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ Greg had hit his third shot about three feet behind the pin on the 17th green , but he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Pete , I 'm so damned nervous I ca n't see the hole . |
| 5 | When we got to the 17th , the last par-5 , he hit his third shot about three feet behind the pin , but he turned to me and said , ‘ You know , Pete , I 'm so damned nervous I ca n't see the hole . |