Example sentences of "to [pers pn] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 61 | Raymond said to me the other day , I asked him was there any lemonade ? |
| 62 | Interesting Pauline at work , she 's ever so hurt , could n't get over it , she came up to me the other day she said , hello , how long has it been we have n't seen one another for two months . |
| 63 | And Jane , this is Jane to me the other day , throw your kitten off my floor and see if it lands on its feet . |
| 64 | I went rubbish cos he came and said to me the other day oh so how are you enjoying your first term |
| 65 | One comes from perhaps the pharmaceutical and the medical profession side , and it seems to me the other side is really the public side . |
| 66 | Fellow said to me the other week you do n't live here . |
| 67 | It seems to me the only people who do persist in that phase and make something tenable out of an unsatisfied , unsettled life , are rock musicians , and rock critics . |
| 68 | It seems to me the only thing to do . ’ |
| 69 | Rhubarb fool is a very beautiful dish — and to me the only way of making rhubarb acceptable . |
| 70 | Mr replied that is what Mr was asking the other to do , that is to hold their hand and to enter into negotiations , now I fully appreciate that erm doctor feels strongly that the defendants have not been negotiating in good faith and have been simply dragging matters out for his benefit , now when I say that I 'm simply saying what I understand to be doctor view , I 'm certainly not suggesting that I 'm finding as a fact , but that was the decision , indeed I could n't cos I 've not heard all the evidence on this matter not as Mr to address me on that one , it seems to me with all respect to doctor missions on this matter that if there has been any dragging of feet or other improper conduct of either the defendants in connection with er they remain on in the premises and not paying what doctor would consider to be a full and proper rent or if there has been problem about their not disclosing documents when they should have done , the position is that doctor has er by making an appropriate application to the court , for maybe the appropriate relief arising out of the facts which he can establish , but that is not in general a matter which erm the court should go into on the question of taxation , it 's not , th this particular taxation of costs is a taxation as I understand it that are formally to the debt of the order of Mr Justice and there is thus no question of the court having to consider the question when the those tax those costs have been swollen or increased in any way by reason of spinning out negotiations whether to run up costs or otherwise , that simply does n't arising it seems to me in this case that maybe a matter which may arise possibly at some future date , though I would hope it would not do so , but er so far as the costs down to the end of the trial of the twentieth of March nineteen ninety one are concerned , it seems to me the fact that the parties maybe negotiating subsequently to deter to rece to resolve the outstanding issue , it 's not a matter which really goes to the question of erm what is the proper amount to allow for taxation of costs which have already been incurred , before these negotiations erm we do n't the figure of the costs appears to have been effectively agreed between the solicitors at forty two thousand pounds , the plaintiff solicitors made it quite clear that they were seeking interest , this was clear in apparently of nineteen ninety two , but this held their hand , er it seems to me the reason they held their hand rather than indicate it was because the defendant through his solicitor was asking them to do so and it seems to me that Mr was acting very sensibly in the defendants interest , because if in fact they had gone ahead and taxed their costs there and then the position would simply be that there would of been an award for taxation , in order , there would be a taxation resulting in an order for payment of of some cost probably in the region of forty two thousand pounds and er that order would itself carry interest under the judgements act , it does n't seem to me it can be sensibly said that erm any interest has to be in any way increased by reason of this delay and it seems to me that erm if one looks at order sixty two and twenty eight er certainly under paragraph B two erm there 's a reference there to any additional interest payable under section seventeen because of the failure on the May , erm , it does n't seem to me that the effect of what has in fact incurred , in this case has been , caused any additional interest to be paid and er it seems to me the only best that I can see in the evidence before me to , which would enable the court to erm , conclude that there should be a disallowance of interest would be as I say because the plaintiffs appear not to have perfected the order for the payment of perfectively two years , just over two years , erm it seems to me however that , that on balance probably it simply a matter of oversight and even if it had been perfected it would n't of made as I guess the least bit of difference to the way the negotiations er proceeded and accordingly I take the view that erm there are no grounds for disallowing interest from either the plaintiffs bill of costs or the defendants bill of costs , accordingly erm to allow the defendants appeal in preparation to the disallowance of costs er interest and to dismiss the defendants appeal for application in relation to an additional period , P sixty of course disallowed , I also propose to dismiss the sum of , the appeal by the plaintiffs from the refusal of taxing master to disallow the interest on the defendants bill of costs . |
| 71 | Shift him when you like but the sooner you get him over to me the better . |
| 72 | This seemed to me the greatest achievement of the afternoon ; some people do n't even learn to think for themselves at university . |
| 73 | Nevertheless , this seems to me the greatest short poem ever written by Wordsworth , comparable to Dr Johnson 's magnificent exposure of The Vanity of Human Wishes . |
| 74 | He is to me the greatest genius of our century . |
| 75 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 76 | This , I confess , is to me the real aim of art history . |
| 77 | To me the real distinction is not high and low , but between religion with a real supernaturalism and salvationism on the one hand and all watered-down modernist versions on the other . ’ |
| 78 | I imagine that many honest people would sympathise with Weatherhead and happily echo his final paragraph : ‘ All this gives me as much as I need , and seems to me the essential credo of Christianity . |
| 79 | ‘ It is not who governs , ’ contends Hayek , ‘ but what government is entitled to do that seems to me the essential problem . ’ |
| 80 | It seems to me the Freudian view takes both into account . |
| 81 | They 've also issued to me the appropriate er protective equipment as well and so that er they do n't you know , so I 'll assume that is on the way . |
| 82 | The following case study is unusual because Charlotte ( not her real name ) had not revealed to me the actual reason why she felt the need for aromatherapy . |
| 83 | ‘ When I say to people that Edward Wood [ Irwin 's name before his ennoblement on appointment to the viceroyalty ] seems to me the highest kind of Englishman now in politics , many of them ’ , Begbie admitted , ‘ look surprised and perplexed . ’ |
| 84 | Please confirm your acceptance of this post by signing and returning to me the docketed copy of this letter . |
| 85 | The chapel seemed to me the focal point of our small , humble community . |
| 86 | The Aldershot method because er it it sort of explained to me the most effect way of getting across whatever you want to say so that made me a feel a bit happier about that . |
| 87 | So to me the most point thing if you 're an interviewee is to find out the duration of the interview . |
| 88 | So , as an all-rounder that can cope with fingerpicking , strumming and solo work , the ultra-responsive D-18 seems to me the runaway winner ; but as a pure rhythm/accompaniment instrument , the D-32 perhaps just nicks the biscuit . |
| 89 | Mary Knelle pointed out to me the green ridges on almost perpendicular fields that showed where potatoes had been grown before 1847 . |
| 90 | Remembering what had happened to me the last time I entered this unhappy house , remembering too that I was an escaped jailbird , whom most of the Frankenstein menage would not hesitate to give back into custody , I decided that the wisest course was to keep the place under observation and wait until I could be sure to speak to Victor . |