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

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1 He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him .
2 Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before .
3 Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Å tanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging .
4 To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier :
5 Her voice trailed away in despair as she considered just how poor a husband and father Campion Price had been to his family .
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