Example sentences of "it [verb] to me " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me . |
| 2 | It got to me . |
| 3 | I 've got first hand experience of this , since the unit Epson provided for review had obviously been in use elsewhere before it got to me , and there was toner flying free from the part-used cartridge . |
| 4 | ‘ Otherwise it looks as if it belongs to me . ’ |
| 5 | I have also had it explained to me by other feminists campaigning for equality of treatment of wives under social security laws , that their concern was only with the wives of claimants , not of company directors — thus accepting the DHSS principle that wives should be means tested on their husbands ' resources , regardless of the extent of their access to them . |
| 6 | I got it given to me so er if you think it 's a different one you can tell me . |
| 7 | She said it 's a big , big cut off , if your phone rings you 're out , so of course the phone were ringing , then it went to one in post , no it never , it went first from Ann from Lynnette then to Ann and then it went to Kathy and then it went to erm somebody else and then it come to me but I 've got seven hundred thousand pounds worth of money on my desk that I were banking and Jane had got that job and Jane was on post in cash cos she ai n't got a job cos that thing with them shoes did n't take off and do you know |
| 8 | Sometimes they see things — people embracing , people dancing , people undressing — and they 're terrified of it happening to me . |
| 9 | Everybody gets phone calls like that , unfortunately occasionally , but it kind of I went through a phase of it happening to me so I therefore had to change my phone number because it was er it was really unpleasant being woken er up by these calls . |
| 10 | I 'd never do that to anybody and I do n't like it happening to me . ’ |
| 11 | And it 's it i Seriously , it has happened a few I in my experience over the years I can remember it happening to me at least half a dozen times . |
| 12 | After he left it occurred to me that Harrington and Lewis might also find my effort useful , so I took them a copy . |
| 13 | It occurred to me that he might well have heard me and decided not to answer . |
| 14 | It occurred to me that as I had met nobody as I walked through the gate and went upstairs , there was no need to encounter anyone now , going down , and I moved my chair from the window . |
| 15 | It occurred to me that perhaps I could invite Erika and Paul out for lunch . ’ |
| 16 | The other day it occurred to me that there are maybe two kinds of intelligence in the world : one that 's very open , that tries to take on everything , and accordingly gets paralysed by choice : another kind that 's narrow , that finds strength focusing on some things and excluding most everything else … |
| 17 | My friend , a widow , was on the point of saying if he could n't attend , neither could she , when it occurred to me that I had no engagements for the weekend in question . |
| 18 | I was of course reminded of my mission regarding the young gentleman and it occurred to me that an outdoor setting , with the general proximity of nature , and in particular the example of the geese close at hand , would not be an unsuitable setting at all in which to convey the sort of message I was bearing . |
| 19 | Whether or not horses understand landing procedure ( they do n't smoke or have to cope with seat-belts ) , it occurred to me that we had taken a couple of bites at the cherry on our approach — I could only guess how near we came to dismantling the gateway to India , for there are no windows in those vehicles . |
| 20 | As much of the sulphurous pungency of garlic is also eliminated through the skin , it occurred to me that it might succeed in gassing the squatters out ! |
| 21 | It occurred to me that we might have been equally misinformed about other things the Germans did . |
| 22 | And it occurred to me that I neither knew how many the family owned nor how difficult mine would be to replace . |
| 23 | It occurred to me that this was not some two-bit gambling ring . |
| 24 | It occurred to me , when I reached Julius Apollo 's door , that the Canadian would be standing where it was for the whole of the twenty-five minutes of its daily scheduled stop . |
| 25 | Then it occurred to me who Shinko was — his prostitute friend , with whom he conjured Harold Robbins 's positions . |
| 26 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 27 | But then it occurred to me that Auden 's self-perception could have sprung partially from the necessity to conceal his homosexuality from his public . |
| 28 | Suddenly it occurred to me to wonder if this was her real reason for refusing to discuss Red Leland . |
| 29 | ‘ So it occurred to me that you , as my great-uncle 's ghillie , might even have known what his plans were for his ‘ specials ’ . |
| 30 | It occurred to me that there might be other readers who also ran the program and were confused with the results they obtained . |