Example sentences of "to i the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 2 | The Minister of State , my right hon. Friend the Member for Oxford , West and Abingdon ( Mr. Patten ) , was on the Front Bench yesterday and has reported to me the content of the ten-minute Bill and the vote . |
| 3 | To me the story — egotistical as it is — rings true . |
| 4 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |
| 5 | You 're no use to me the way you are . |
| 6 | When you talk to me the way you do ? |
| 7 | Er , I I I thought it extremely discourteous of Councillor instead of responding to my letter he goes to the press and starts complaining , this does n't seem to me the way to sort out the problem at all and I am equally aware of the problem er and if it only helps me get some facts together then it it will strengthen my arm getting things sorted out . |
| 8 | And Mr Hawick did n't seem to me the kind of chap who 'd put up with that . ’ |
| 9 | The Führer has given to me the honour of organizing the conference and , of course , responsibility for his safety . |
| 10 | Only a prisoner and the nurse had spoken to me the night before I cut myself . |
| 11 | To me the Navy has always been unrivalled for the style in which it clothes ceremonial occasions , and these dinners , from the entry of the President 's party heralded by nautical airs from the marine band , to the ritual procession of the baron of beef through to the ( sometimes seated ) loyal toast , are no exception . |
| 12 | ‘ To me the Lotus Seven was everything a sports car should be . ’ |
| 13 | But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice . |
| 14 | To me the mist seemed like a veil of a moslem bride that is used not to hide but to reveal a subtler beauty to the lover . |
| 15 | He described to me the glen in a storm — the darkness that mantles it , the springing into life of untold hosts of runlets , the careering in mad fury of the burns as they break through and tower above the channel wherein they are wont to flow ; the showers , the careering of the clouds , the thunderings and the lightning-flashings , and the artillery of the winds , as the air-gusts meet the peaks and explode in the hollows of the darksome corries . |
| 16 | The fact that I was in a prison camp at all should have made clear to me the ruthlessness and irresistibility of the stampede . |
| 17 | This touching but morbid In Memoriam served only to bring home to me the realisation of what now seemed inevitable . |
| 18 | Borne on the clean sea breeze this strange alien farmyard smell from bird droppings suddenly brought home to me the density of the bird population on shore which had yet to reveal itself . |
| 19 | She 'd explained to me the origin of the Paisley pattern ; I had the history of Notting Hill Gate , the use of a camera obscura by Vermeer , why Charles Lamb 's sister murdered their mother , and a history of Tamla Motown . |
| 20 | Epsilon ( 4.1 ) , between Beta and Lambda , is also of type M , and is decidedly orange , though to me the colour is much less pronounced than that of Mu . |
| 21 | The gesture revealed nothing of that woman 's essence , one could say rather that the woman revealed to me the charm of a gesture . |
| 22 | ‘ It seems to me the law is reasonably plain . |
| 23 | Could you please explain to me the principle behind these phases ? |
| 24 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 25 | Your father has extended to me the hospitality of his house for as long as I care to take it , or until he grows sick of the sight of me . |
| 26 | In a parliamentary answer to me the Minister told me that he ’ had identified 18 serious irregularities and a number of additional cases involving minor breaches of the scheme rules . |
| 27 | The way I think of the band is kind of like puzzle pieces ; to me the secret of an effective arrangement is not for everyone to push towards the same kind of sound , but for everyone to play something that 's contrasting but interlocking , so that when you listen to the song , all the pieces fall into place around each other . |
| 28 | To me the grenadilla is without compare ; its flowers are sweet like the flowers of roses , but its fruit is like no other fruit and I would choose it before the nectar of the gods . |
| 29 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 30 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |