Example sentences of "a [noun] to i " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet the years have lessened the gap in age between us : she is more like a sister to me now . |
| 2 | Usually my mother was just like a sister to me but she has a strange fascination with the Queen . |
| 3 | She was like a mum to me — the best woman in my life . |
| 4 | it looks like it 's a snowball to me |
| 5 | Mind you , when I was skivvying for that Brixton fam'ly , the head of the fam'ly did n't 'alf take a fancy to me . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Judy took a fancy to me and got very jealous of Michele , ’ he recalled . |
| 7 | ‘ Lovely ai n't it , ’ he murmured , ‘ this river is like a drug to me . |
| 8 | If I was n't able to admit it to some old woman I 'd never see again and who did n't matter a scrap to me , how was I going to face it out for the rest of my life ? |
| 9 | But long before her death my grandmother was a ghost to me , as if she was never really there , even though I visited her regularly as a child . |
| 10 | This is intended as a present to me on my fortieth birthday in July . |
| 11 | Does n't sound like a story to me ! |
| 12 | I 'm a layman to you and you 're a layman to me in many senses , and therefore erm the , the , the fact that our students are in effect very often laymen is not something that detracts from their motivation to study , in many instances it 's something that gives it stimulus and underlines it . |
| 13 | She held out a Coca-Cola to me . |
| 14 | This was a worry to me because I could not work out how much money I would have to live on . |
| 15 | ‘ If that is a reproach to me , you are wide of the mark , Benedict . |
| 16 | it look 's like a wedding to me |
| 17 | ‘ Your concern does you credit , step-mother , and is a compliment to me , I know . |
| 18 | I well I er i it was just he he sounded like a ponce to me . |
| 19 | ‘ Golf is a religion to me , ’ he said in careful English . |
| 20 | In a reply to me in July , the Prime Minister recognised that there was a need to achieve ’ flexibility ’ in responding to changing economic circumstances . |
| 21 | It was a pleasure to me to see the housewifely way in which Mr Wilson set about everything . |
| 22 | Your own Pilade is a pleasure to me , Wilson . |
| 23 | it was a pleasure to I liked it . |
| 24 | Why must you be such a disappointment to me ? ’ |
| 25 | It was a disappointment to me . |
| 26 | ‘ That 's right , be a disappointment to me , ’ said Mrs Cousins , warmly clad in a dark brown woollen dress with huge leg-of-mutton sleeves now going out of fashion . |
| 27 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 28 | Do not be a disappointment to me , Huy . ’ |
| 29 | Other ways we find bands include : ( a ) being recognized in the industry as a company that is worth approaching ( managers with new artists drop in to play a tape to me or any of the other A&R people ) ; ( b ) demo tapes ( they all get heard eventually , but to get your tape picked out of the pile for special attention is difficult ) ; ( c ) seeing them play live on the London circuit . |
| 30 | She remained a stranger to me . ’ |