Example sentences of "always be to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ While I was with her , ’ I said , ‘ she told me what a wonderful husband you had always been to her — always , in every way , all your married life . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ My style has always been to be analytical , ’ says the man who gained a double first in maths at King 's College , Cambridge . |
| 3 | Not only for now , but for everything ; all the help you 've always been to me . ’ |
| 4 | It has always been to the Society 's credit that preservation work undertaken on its Merlin engines has involved every nut , bolt and washer being removed , cleaned , treated and replaced so that when rebuilt the engine should stand every chance of lasting for many future generations . |
| 5 | It should not be assumed , however , that when religious beliefs have functioned as primitive science , it has always been to the detriment of further inquiry . |
| 6 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 7 | He came in with the ideas , give the drivers and conductors everything they asked for whereby my training had always been to only give them what they were really entitled to , not give them anything extra but he gave them the earth and that erm did n't sort of go very well for the new Manager who came in , he had a lot of undoing to do there , that this fella had given away , in his six or seven weeks there . |
| 8 | Little Gino , whose ambition had always been to be taller than four foot ten , had got a little too interested when it was his turn and even in the candlelight we could all see that he 'd deliberately got his charm bracelet tangled in one of Sorrel 's suspenders . |
| 9 | From start to finish quality control has always been to the fore at Guinness Dublin where the company has had its own laboratories for over a century . |
| 10 | At the next meeting one member brought in her ‘ mistake ’ ( how grateful we always are to knitters who share ‘ mistakes ’ . |
| 11 | His books should always be to hand , to enlighten and inspire us . |
| 12 | It is too easy to lose control when one lives alone ; the aim must always be to be ‘ alone but not lonely ’ . |
| 13 | So vivid was her imagination that she became adept at having conversations with him in which he was always making her laugh , always being to her the sort of person she longed to have as a life companion . |
| 14 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |