Example sentences of "be [adj] to i [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've been beastly to me always — always . |
| 2 | ‘ Carel Weight has always been important to me both as a painter and as a father figure . |
| 3 | He 'd never asked me that before , but in fact my religion had been important to me all along ; he only asked me that day because I had my head covered . |
| 4 | Do n't you dare to be insolent to me again . |
| 5 | ‘ By the time you 'd ripped my character to shreds , lectured me on my grasping capitalist principles , then forced yourself to be nice to me out of commendable loyalty to your family firm , I was hooked . |
| 6 | What materials are available to me here , relevant to my quest ? and the student will require the same indexes and organization as the teacher . |
| 7 | And God bless Mrs Melburn and this big woman … lady who has been kind to me today . |
| 8 | Someone being nice to me always makes it h-harder . ’ |
| 9 | And er it 's strange to me how an employer would be happy to have a room with a hundred and hope to get one or two who were n't , either for reasons of information or things that one could n't trust from a worker . |
| 10 | Jeanette 's friend eventually produced the curtains for the sitting room , and I am very pleased with them ( sorry if I 've already told you that — it 's exciting to me anyway ! ) . |
| 11 | The plethora of adjectives point , again , towards self-dramatisation , and it is clear to me now that I used this device as a means of bearing depression in general . |
| 12 | No and er what is interesting to me too is that erm in that office , you w w were responsible for carrying me message in the Porthmadog area . |
| 13 | I mean I 've been in quite a bad mood this week actually but it 's really , like you know standing up for myself cos anyone that 's rude to me now gets it right back in their face . |
| 14 | yeah and that 's the only one I know of it 's incredible to me either |
| 15 | It is obvious to me now , though perhaps it was not then , that every revolution will evoke a response from those who fear change or who question the wisdom of moving too far or too quickly from the comfort which traditional practice gives . |
| 16 | ‘ God is good to me today . |
| 17 | Hassan 's important to me now , not Stephen . ’ |
| 18 | The very concept of liberation makes sense only if it is viewed against the backdrop of unjust oppression , and while the notion of unjust oppression no doubt assumes many guises , it is incomprehensible to me how we might understand it apart from the idea of the violation of basic moral rights . |
| 19 | Be kind to me now , and I will learn to love and be kind . ’ |
| 20 | I have seen it all in my very own Camden often enough , but it is new to me somehow . |
| 21 | ‘ The tough thing for me is not to have a particular voice or gait for a part , to have to play a guy like John , who is close to me physically and in age and so on . |
| 22 | The Sunday Telegraph tartly commented ‘ If someone is nasty to me again , I shall send a photographer round to take their pictures in 3D . |
| 23 | ‘ Be nice to me always . ’ |
| 24 | Mr Clinton said : ‘ It 's special to me personally , it 's special to the United States . |
| 25 | Mrs Pitt was rude to me again today when I came out of the bathroom . |
| 26 | cos of nowadays , well they did n't then because she was beastly to me now ! |
| 27 | It was important to me not to be silenced by the fear the anonymous caller invoked . |
| 28 | The first field that was available to me certainly fitted into the category of ‘ no known site ’ . |
| 29 | Much of his study of the often shameful encounter between the conquerors and the native Indians was hazy to me now , but the clean lines of the narrative still reverberated within me whenever I saw an Inca ashlar . |