Example sentences of "it be to her " in BNC.
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| 1 | She changed my entire perspective of the infection and it is to her , I believe , that I owe my current good health . |
| 2 | Raskolnikov turns to Sonya ; ‘ it was to her , Sonya , that he first went with his confession ; when he felt the need of a human being , he sought the human being in her ’ — which does indeed isolate for a moment , and emphasize , the mystic business of his alienation from the human family ; and for this moment the dross ( as it were ) of Sonya and of Raskolnikov is withheld ; the god in his humanity is looking for the god in hers . |
| 3 | And when he appeared in the yard , followed by the child , it was to her she spoke , saying , ‘ Go and put your hat and coat on ; we 're goin' for a walk . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps she really did little more than lend her name , but it was to her at any rate that Queen Victoria 's secretary wrote with royal support for her venture ( the Queen had also supported the Victoria Press , named after her ) . |
| 5 | Constance was , at present , the most important person in her life , for it was to her that she read out items of interest in the newspaper , with her that she shared her doubts and prejudices and to her that she described her dreams . |
| 6 | She had been tricking herself earlier into thinking that he did , that their friendship was nearly as important to him as it was to her , but seeing him in the garden with Marise tonight , and hearing about his marriage , unhappy though it had been , had made her realise that friendship was never as important as passion — at least , she was sure , not to a man . |
| 7 | It must have been as clear to him as it was to her that Jeff , most definitely , was n't acting . |