Example sentences of "to me a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is an objectivity behind the subjectivity of our preferences which entitles you to recommend to me a dish which you do not choose yourself and which I have hitherto been repelled by , but may come to like if I can forget my prejudices and for the first time attend closely to the flavour . |
| 2 | As I questioned her during the session , Maxine described to me a life as Martha , a fisherman 's wife in a small seaport in the late eighteenth century . |
| 3 | He described to me a life of violence and hatred in which he lost no opportunity to vent his anger upon those around him — and , what is more , he actually enjoyed doing so . |
| 4 | It has always seemed to me a pity that Evelyn Waugh , the one person present with a gift for writing , was blind to the historical significance of the occasion , impercipient of this last manifestation of Abyssinia 's traditional pageantry . |
| 5 | It 's does smack to me a bit of in-filling and er , Northbrooks is quite a dense area already , a ve , a very dense area erm , and erm I 'm I 'm , you know , I 'd like to see any detailed plans on that before we even look at one in principle . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know about reincarnation , ’ said Lydia , ‘ except it sounds to me a bit of a dirty trick . |
| 7 | On the other question , new temples were not built on the Acropolis until after the middle of the century ( a ‘ Cimonian Parthenon ’ appears to me a mare 's nest , and even its proponent does not think it was begun before the sixties ; below , p. 93 ) . |
| 8 | Er , she explained to me a case she had analyzed where she , Anna Freud , was quite certain that some of the symptoms of the woman she was analyzing went back to infantile masturbation . |
| 9 | That there should be a chance for at least some children to learn Latin , not as a part of ‘ classical studies ’ , but essentially as a branch of linguistic studies , seems to me a benefit that schools should strive to preserve . |
| 10 | well I have n't discussed this with my learned friend , but it seems to me a date sometime next term would be appropriate , er which would give another term , or so for the plaintiff side to investigate these matters |
| 11 | Unknown to me a honeybee had made a hive in this part of the wall and not long afterwards I became aware of an angry bee searching frantically for the entrance to its hive . |
| 12 | She has written to me a couple of times and seems to have managed to keep everyone busy in my absence . |
| 13 | Next to me a girl eating a box of liquorice torpedoes . |
| 14 | One person said to me a year or two ago : ‘ I 'm scared of dying . |
| 15 | This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat . |
| 16 | Neumann , conveniently , attributes to me a generalization I did not make then proceeds to refute it . |
| 17 | In his book , Pot Pourri from the Thirties , Lord Moyne writes , ‘ To me a home in the country was a gateway to happiness … |
| 18 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 19 | And there seemed to me a safety , a kind of warmth in such numbers . |
| 20 | ‘ Tapeinosis , my dear Appleton ; be humble , be humble , ’ was said to me a score of times , and I imagine to many another student . |
| 21 | I have also had passed to me a petition from Mr containing four thousand five hundred signatures from the national anti-hunt petition er , there is a doubt of the petition or a letter from the tenant farmers but er , there is representation from them . |
| 22 | Although the case of a limitation upon , or condition precedent to a right to serve a notice to quit , does not appear to have been the subject of judicial decision , his principle that , if a covenant affects a landlord qua landlord , it must necessarily run with the reversion , appears to me a sound criterion … |
| 23 | It seemed to me a duty to pay homage to those Jews who , in desperate conditions , had found the courage and the skill to resist . |
| 24 | And to me a lentil soup or purée is unthinkable without the complement of lemon and olive oil ; then , just try to imagine lamb kebabs without lemon … |
| 25 | Now this use of a formula , making the , the formula as pliable as possible to take in all these different themes , seems to me very interesting , because it seems to me a point at which popular literature , erm or the so-called easy dividing line between popular literature and high art , becomes very difficult to judge , very fuzzy . |
| 26 | The wireless operator roused himself to point out to me a circle of pale pink rubble — literally not one brick left upon another — which was the town of Wesel . |
| 27 | President Roosevelt wired Churchill on 21 November that both sides had compromised , but the UK insisted on restricting the number of aircraft irrespective of the amount of traffic : ‘ This seems to me a form of strangulation , ’ he wrote , and he asked Churchill not to let the conference collapse . |
| 28 | Professor Lear 's assertion that ‘ it is through love that humans , and the rest of living nature , acquire form ’ seems to me a throwback to a much earlier mode of thinking which , if widely readopted , would be about as intellectually productive as a Romanian state-run steel mill is economically productive . |
| 29 | For some reason not clear to me a theory has developed and is reflected in many decided cases to the effect that where the architect has agreed or is required to act fairly he becomes what has often been called a quasi-arbitrator … |
| 30 | I do not like the graphic novel , and for a new work from a successful author to come only in this form seems to me a shame . |