Example sentences of "to me [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 I therefore proposed an account of law , ‘ normative positivism ’ , which I take to synthesize salient features of positivism and natural law thinking and which seems to me wholly to fit the nature of criminal law .
2 The terms of section 40 seem to me strongly to support the conclusions reached so far .
3 Perhaps he had believed he was to go with the main reconnaissance party , and having written his last letter did not like to write to me again to cause me what he thought would be further confusion and anxiety .
4 ‘ That seems to me rather to reinforce suspicion that Amy killed Hereward , ’ Laura said .
5 Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique .
6 It seems to me better to consider the particular relationship in hand , and see whether or not , as a matter of policy economic loss should be recoverable .
7 Is my hon. Friend aware that the chief constable of the West Riding and one of his policemen wrote to me recently to say that there are no outstanding matters with the Home Office and that they welcome the £3.16 million to fight crime and the refurbishment and establishment of new police stations in Bradford , Leeds and Pontefract ?
8 Nor did it occur to me then to enquire how it was possible in those days for a keen Wesleyan Methodist to become a publican .
9 Father James Morrow , a Roman Catholic priest and pro-life campaigner , emerged from the hearing of his application by magistrates in Bingley , west Yorkshire and said : ‘ It is up to me now to pursue the matter in the next court . ’
10 Father James Morrow , a campaigner from Braemar , emerged from the 50-minute hearing of his application by magistrates at Bingley , west Yorkshire , and said : ‘ It is up to me now to pursue the matter in the next court . ’
11 It seems to me hard to do the latter without being able to do the former .
12 The Chapman I knew and observed over a decade and more seemed to me never to have outgrown his background , his appetites , his ambitions or his selfishness .
13 To say that seems to me really to beg the question .
14 So what I thought was that it was quite important to look at all these organisations that do seem to me really to have nothing to do with Oxford or Oxfordshire , and that we should be very careful .
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