Example sentences of "put it to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one of her oldest friends affectionately put it to me , she has lost her marbles . |
| 2 | Or , as one of my students once put it to me , ironically , when I was still preaching this gospel , ‘ I know , Sir , it was racism what dun n it . ’ |
| 3 | My companion put it to me that an initiative must now be taken , and reminded me of the unrecorded conversation at the time of my appointment . |
| 4 | On that same day visit , a counsellor put it to me that my Agincourt style visualization with its obliterating flights of white arrows might perhaps be a little too aggressive . |
| 5 | As Lee Marvin put it to me once , ‘ Take no shit from anybody . ’ |
| 6 | They are the ones who — as one such teacher put it to me — are over the hump but not over the hill . |
| 7 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 8 | He put it to me last night . ’ |
| 9 | As one manager put it to me : ‘ None of the companies here is in the business of finding reasons not to pay legitimate claims . ’ |
| 10 | There was an abundance of help ( ‘ both seen and unseen ’ as one elder put it to me ) ; there was constant anxiety about the weather ; there was joy of meeting old friends and making new ones ; there was the amazing efficiency , imperturbability and the reticence of the treasury ; and the true pleasure of finding things for people . |