Example sentences of "[noun prp] was to [pers pn] " 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 | And that evening I thought how unkind , how unjust , Biddy was to me . |
| 3 | ‘ But as Colin is to me , so Maurice was to you . |
| 4 | Mrs Raffald was to her somehow unreal , a creature from another world ; and foreigners , even in their own country , must have seemed infinitely remote . |
| 5 | Walker said : ‘ What James Hunt was to me was what he was to any Grand Prix enthusiast the world over a chap with enormous experience and gigantic expertise . ’ |
| 6 | After one or two early passages of arms , when Wheeler had first come into the post , in which it became apparent that Wheeler was prepared to be a good deal nastier to Ian than Ian was to him , Ian had settled for a civil service manner in which he made no attempt to contribute to the department 's thinking . |