Example sentences of "to me [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was given to me as a present so I 'd feel funny about selling it myself , but you could maybe buy a pair of shoes for Sonja with it or something . |
| 2 | She said , ‘ You see , before the war , this was given to me as a present , and it was full of chocolates . ’ |
| 3 | Tony Visconti : ‘ At that time , we had gone into the studio to record ‘ The Man Who Sold The World ’ , and the horrible thing that was happening to me as a producer , the nightmare of my life , was that David and Angela were becoming totally entwined and enraptured with each other . |
| 4 | SIR — Your agricultural correspondent 's report on the goats of Snowdonia and their origins ( April 2 ) is less exciting than the folklore related to me as a small boy by a Welsh shepherd . |
| 5 | ‘ To me as a Peruvian , ’ David said , his deep , brown eyes alive with the topic , ‘ nationalism means Manu , means biological diversity . |
| 6 | It has not often been given to me as a poet , it is perhaps not often given to human beings , to find such ready sympathy , such wit and judgment together . |
| 7 | Ben Alder has always seemed as impenetrable to me as a hi-fi magazine , but from up on the ridge it gives away its secrets and reveals a relatively simple ascent from the west up a long , inclining slope . |
| 8 | They were the only words ever spoken to me as a player that could remotely be termed coaching … nobody realized that a young player needed reassurance . ’ |
| 9 | They inter-linked into a plasma of enormous strength , and to me as a young man they formed a Mafia that made the Sicilian one look like choirboys . |
| 10 | It has come through to me as a firm conclusion that , if there is such a thing as premonition , it is something which is instantaneous — a flash of intuition … . |
| 11 | It came to me as a gift , a little black-faced lamb sent to me by the Batesons who were farming Briscoe at the time . |
| 12 | To me as a woman they are as depressing an example as the Duchess of Finchley . |
| 13 | It happened to me as a player at Everton with Gordon Lee 15 years ago . |
| 14 | Mario described himself to me as a hungry kid , adding that maybe those early experiences had left him with a permanent sense of insecurity . |
| 15 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 16 | It may mean ‘ this is a role which was ascribed to me as a woman and which I resented ’ . |
| 17 | Please do not refer to me as a girlie , I demanded of Bob , it 's insulting . |
| 18 | Other birds we saw around Nesseby included dunlin , familiar enough to me as a breeding wader of the Shetland hills . |
| 19 | On a personal note , in my very early days on the staff of Ipswich Art School , Squirrell was teaching and I have very fond memories of the kindness and helpfulness which this most likeable man extended to me as a new boy . |
| 20 | ‘ They were given to me as a present . |
| 21 | What did that do to me as a person , to my sense of myself in the Christian church ? |
| 22 | The people look to me as a new Messiah . |
| 23 | I simply have n't a thing to wear and I wo n't have people pointing to me as a dowd . " |
| 24 | As I look out of my window — the scene is as interesting to me as a Canaletto — I see the clouds suddenly begin to rise o at high speed , like a milkshake being drawn up a straw , the top layers , the fluffy stuff , going last . |
| 25 | It was an extension — or so I thought — of the tact she had always shown to me as a child that she did n't impose . |
| 26 | The major attention then was focused on Vietnam and there were very few people covering Cambodia , which also appealed to me as a journalist . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ It was important to respect the independence of older team members who had been used to me as a competitor and find the right balance between coaching and friendship . ’ |
| 28 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 29 | It was sent to me as a review copy . |
| 30 | Now frankly , an admiral who does n't pick his own bombing targets and a broker who ca n't choose his own investments do n't seem as oppressed to me as a clerk who is n't allowed to press her own return key . |