Example sentences of "had been kind to [pron] " in BNC.

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1 She could never like the man , because of what he was , but he had been kind to her considering he was her inquisitor .
2 But Georgina had been kind to her , in her own way .
3 She smiled nervously at Sergeant Phyllis Henley , who had been kind to her at the time of their parents ' ungainly departure from life , but uncompromising .
4 ‘ They must have been pushed to have put that in ! ’ she told him scornfully , although she was secretly pleased to see that the camera had been kind to her .
5 The weather signs in the sky of the previous evening had foretold correctly but the Ben had been kind to me on my first ascent .
6 Friends that had been kind to me .
7 He was returning to a world that had been kind to him , a past he could be sure of .
8 The sympathy of Diodorus — that is , of Posidonius — stretches so far as to admit that even during the war the slaves spared some of the owners who had been kind to them .
9 But he did n't like to go against his grandmother who , in her grim fashion , had been kind to his dad at the last .
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