Example sentences of "to me [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In July 1642 George Campbell writing from Ballicastell to his brother Colin Campbell , the tutor , was complaining concerning those men you wrote of to me which came from Ila . |
| 2 | ‘ Joan , when I departed for Ludlow , it was with a heavy heart — for it seemed to me we had only just found each other , ’ Edward told her . |
| 3 | yes , it was in a bloody scrap yard and this Jack come to me we had he had mentioned it before but he said we said we 're not bothered , you know , he wo n't er that was in there . |
| 4 | It it seems to me we 've spent about an hour and ten minutes or so almost shadow boxing over this particular policy erm and we we keep running into well running both matters together and it seems right and proper that we should do that . |
| 5 | But it seems to me we 've got more than enough assets to cover the borrowings we 've got at the moment and indeed many more besides . |
| 6 | the place , I mean , the chap down at the housing down there , try to say to me we made ourselves homeless |
| 7 | it seems to me we have to win two to get off . |
| 8 | ‘ When Edwards spoke to me we discussed other football matters , such as Webb leaving , Mark Hughes might be going and United returning with an increased bid for Hirst . |
| 9 | " It seems to me we did the responsible and the hygienic thing . |
| 10 | But I must admit I really had a go at one nonce and felt so guilty afterwards , after she explained to me what had happened . |
| 11 | No one has yet explained to me what happens to your filter if you set up an aquarium and lock up the ammonia that forms the first stage of the nitrogen cycle as Ammo Lock claims to do . |
| 12 | And she said to me what did I think of the idea of taking Pete back . |
| 13 | ‘ If I find favour in the eyes of the Lord , he will bring me back and let me see both it and his habitation ; but if he says , ‘ I have no pleasure in you , ’ behold , here I am , let him do to me what seems good to him' ( 2 Sam . |
| 14 | I remembered my father describing to me what happened after a German V2 rocket had hit and destroyed out house in St John 's Wood in London during the second world war . |
| 15 | I had long been a believer in voluntary euthanasia , and my mother 's experience strengthened it ; for to me what matters most is not the length of a person 's life but its quality , and that death , when it comes , should have dignity . |
| 16 | So when Ampeg came to me they said , ‘ Okay , it 's a free range . |
| 17 | If they want to talk to me they come here , ’ says Roger Boyes , executive director of the Leeds Permanent Building Society , delivering a northerner 's ultimate boast . |
| 18 | Yet it seemed to me they had much to learn when it came to manners and plain humanity . |
| 19 | I mean to me they 've , London is classed as the south . |
| 20 | I would n't define integrated and balanced individually , I 'd link them together , because to me they appear to be er a concept , that you move towards , and the concept to me is shall we say to provide a balanced population structure , which is n't biased to any one sector shall we say , it 's not an elderly , it 's not a retirement village there like perhaps you have in er certain parts of er er North America , and the second element of the concept is that it should provide a range of services compatible with its size , but I qualify that by saying , but not all the services that the people in that settlement require , and this brings me back to my discussion , debate with Mr Curtis . |
| 21 | And the very player that I was talking about then , turns up now down the left hand side , he holds on so well , the cross again , and er again almost gets the cross in and our er colleague from the Italian service is er getting very excited a just away to my left , but er the header is wide , he can calm down a little , have an aspirin , and it 's still two one for Notts , but er Pisa they 're a danger , and to me they look far more dangerous than the Italian opponents in the last game here at Lane in this same competition . |
| 22 | The last four lines of this sonnet are seldom quoted , but to me they represent Shakespeare at his best , that intimate tone and unforced style of which Angel Day 's account of the personal letter is so apt a description : ‘ the familiar and mutuall talke of one absent friend to another … simple , plaine , and of the lowest and meanest stile ’ — yet how expressive : It is rare , even in his poetry , to find traditional tropes reanimated with such freshness and simplicity . |
| 23 | Alright to me they do n't look harsh . |
| 24 | I do n't know , they look a bit rough on the front to me they do |
| 25 | I , I do n't know how they get there but they know how our army works , we know how their army works , we can not hide manoeuvre 's and every army in the world knows the manoeuvre 's I 've been on one big NATO manoeuvre out in Germany right , and you 're saying to me they do n't know how I , how each army works |
| 26 | To me they sound as if they 're very similar — so be warned . |
| 27 | ‘ Women say to me they have n't done anything for the last ten years and it turns out they have had four children , run the PTA , served as parent governor , done charity work , organised a community activity and cared for aged parents . ’ |
| 28 | Even Trollope has his abbey , although he despised both Disraeli 's challenge to Young England and his novels : ‘ To me they have all had the same flavour of paint and unreality … a feeling of stage properties … and that pricking of the conscience which must be the general accompaniment of paste diamonds . ’ |
| 29 | Today it seems to me they have achieved this . |
| 30 | Somebody once said to me they think it 's really rude if they did n't bring wine to a , to a dinner party and then they do n't have to have to drink it . |