Example sentences of "to me [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But where they 've gone on to have parish councils , you 've had the typical triangular structure and when I talk to people and listen to what they say , they , they do n't express it to me as such , but the felling you get over is that 's the sort of structure they 're used to , because the structure of the church is built in anyway , and the whole structure of the church |
| 2 | Only in our passion did this not suggest itself to me as mean retention on his part . |
| 3 | It was like Frazer 's looking into the ‘ abysm of time ’ , but it was a vision only imperfectly appreciated by Charlie Mears , as the narrator of ‘ The Finest Story in the World ’ emphasizes : ‘ Above all , he was absolutely ignorant of the knowledge sold to me for five pounds ; and he would retain that ignorance , for bank-clerks do not understand metempsychosis , and a sound commercial education does not include Greek . ’ |
| 4 | Indeed , leave all practical matters to me for all time . |
| 5 | The confrontation involved in sex seemed of all those available to me for that purpose the most powerful , the most open , the most personal . |
| 6 | Would n't speak to me for six months , but then his natural goodness of heart , as well perhaps as his gradual realization that I might have been right , that perhaps I had saved him from a fate worse than death , made it impossible for him to keep it up . |
| 7 | Jane did n't speak to me for two years , even if we bumped in a passageway . |
| 8 | She gently eased it off his lap , gave it a few licks and pushed it over to me for first bite . |
| 9 | Not only for myself as it 's been a particular project close to me for many years , but for the break up of a team , a team that has a long time to build up and a team that worked very well together and who were very committed . |
| 10 | ‘ Blaming me for his wife 's death and refusing to speak to me for seventeen years is hardly ‘ quarrelling ’ , ’ she retorted . |
| 11 | But she sells them to me for fifty pence a packet still . |
| 12 | She could 've talked to me for ten years and still not come out with it . |
| 13 | Sapt talked to me for three hours about what I must do and what I must say , what I liked and what I did n't like . |
| 14 | He was next desk to me for three or four years . |
| 15 | if I , if I sleep some one else 's house she flips and do n't speak to me for three days , but she goes off you know , I do n't mind that at all , but its just the fact that she 's so hypercritical |
| 16 | It came as a great surprise to me for some reason or other . |
| 17 | not talking to me for some reason . |
| 18 | P T O I suppose it 's unlikely that I 'll ever see you again but we might see each other at William 's or something and if you ever need to speak to me for some reason you can call me at school |
| 19 | a nonsense to me for this reason , that there is in society the payers of wages and the receivers of wages . |
| 20 | He wrote it and handed it to me for this newsletter and I ran out of space . |
| 21 | A good thing I was free of it , as both sides in the dispute applied to me for further information in the course of the afternoon . |
| 22 | She had n't written to me for several weeks and I was beginning to wonder what stage her marriage plans had arrived at , but was n't at all prepared for the news that greeted me . |
| 23 | The course was important to me for several reasons . |
| 24 | Cilla Black wo n't speak to me to this day because when I was a critic , I wrote a very warm piece about her , but during the course of it , I said , ‘ She 's quite good-looking , but she does have the nose of a rather careful boxer . ’ |
| 25 | In I think it happened to me to some extent . |
| 26 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 27 | Darwin 's concept of evolution may hold water as far as it goes , but without the inclusion of an omnipotent ‘ Master Mind ’ , working from outside to plan the possibility of purposeful development , it makes no sense to me at all . |
| 28 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |
| 29 | ‘ And , anyway , he 's been absolutely no trouble to me at all . |
| 30 | The idea of a school in itself is basically of no interest to me at all . |