Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [noun sg] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very little apart from his outward appearance , and when he had n't been teasing her he 'd been carelessly kind to her when they met . |
| 2 | ‘ You are not kind to your little seester ! ’ |
| 3 | Note that the contract can not bind those who are not party to it . |
| 4 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , you 've been really kind to me . |
| 6 | They 'd been unbelievably kind to her , not that it was any of his business — he was n't one of the villagers , just a visitor . |
| 7 | His songs today bemoan the rotten state of the world — Aids , police violence , the homeless , his ex-manager — these are now grist to his mill . |
| 8 | But , looking into her face , it did n't seem as if her years of freedom had been particularly kind to her . |
| 9 | In fact he and his wife Rosemary were extremely kind to me when they lived in South Yorkshire and later when I stayed with then , in North Yorkshire whilst working in that area . |
| 10 | A lot of Mickeys and Goofys recognized John 's condition and were especially kind to him . |
| 11 | She did n't mean — I think — that Richard and I were not kind to her , only that she did not ‘ come first ’ with either of us , and she was a woman who needed to be made much of and fussed over . |
| 12 | In fact , the 1907 Hague Conventions were not formally applicable to that conflict , because several of the belligerents were not party to them , and under the so-called ‘ general participation clause ’ the Hague Conventions could not therefore apply even between those who were parties . |
| 13 | The incomer might not agree to any existing house rules or feel that they can ignore them because they were not party to them initially . |
| 14 | But the appeal of the romantic movement does not explain why those who were not party to it , such as Michael Faraday , who was a visionary and wrote beautifully , have been completely written out of conventional histories of 19th century Britain , as if he ( and David Brewster and Thomas Henry Huxley and the rest ) were just peripheral figures , keeping things ticking along so that statesmen could make grand decisions and the widening of human understanding could be left to poets . |
| 15 | ‘ That , too , Father , I confess , though we were not party to it . |
| 16 | ‘ They were really kind to me and they made me feel that they genuinely cared . ’ |
| 17 | As Lady Romsey gently cradled Holly in her arms , the girl 's mother Julie said : ‘ Both the Romseys and their nanny were particularly kind to us when Leonora and Holly were receiving treatment . |
| 18 | The coven will also employ magic , but this is only secondary to its beliefs and worship . |
| 19 | That , I feel sure , is scarcely news to you . |
| 20 | They prefer to be unlocked but it is not prison to them . ’ |
| 21 | It 's not money to us , it 's a way of life . |
| 22 | But it 's also testimony to something else . |
| 23 | This is n't news to me , pal . |
| 24 | He was extremely kind to me . |
| 25 | He did n't say much , but he was always kind to her . |
| 26 | She was always kind to me and she was the only neighbour Mum could really trust . |
| 27 | ‘ Madeleine , Mrs Appleby is a person , not just a cook ; and in the days when I lived at Maythorpe House , she was enormously kind to me , ’ Harry said . |
| 28 | You saw , sir , by her fit , she was in terror , and although your honour intended her no harm , yet the apprehension was almost death to her . |