Example sentences of "[noun] be to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two younger boys , Dick and John , clung to her skirt as she told Sarah how good Abel was to her . |
| 2 | The bride can propose a toast to the bridegroom if the first toast was to her alone , or to the bridesmaids or Matron of Honour . |
| 3 | Papa 's to her : a camera . |
| 4 | Every investigation was to her like a personal crusade , a quest , that she had to complete . |
| 5 | And it seemed to her that that broken line , I know not , oh , I know not " , expressed a level of passion as high as any the English language could achieve ; the interjection and the repetition and the archaic inversion were to her the exhaled breath of yearning . |
| 6 | His back was to her , he was toddling along purposefully in the same direction as her , across that bleak empty landscape . |
| 7 | His back was to her . |
| 8 | Theodora , who had met Gray only once , was surprised by how familiar the rather pretty features were to her . |
| 9 | Mrs Raffald was to her somehow unreal , a creature from another world ; and foreigners , even in their own country , must have seemed infinitely remote . |
| 10 | Northam was to her the very image of unfertile ground , and yet other people lived there and stayed there when they had money in the bank and legs to walk away on . |
| 11 | His supreme loyalty is to her . |
| 12 | She did not know why she should feel such fear , because she felt for her mother not respect , but contempt : and why should she lack courage before someone whose attitudes were to her so transparently , pettily contemptible ? |
| 13 | Men were to her what waves had become to me . |
| 14 | She realised with a shock what a mystery her children were to her , and what a mystery she must seem to them . |
| 15 | He wondered how big the world was to her . |
| 16 | That inaccurate but understandable calculation would make the APR more than 5,000 per cent — at least a measure of how very little use following-on is to her . |