Example sentences of "[noun] to i " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Golf is a religion to me , ’ he said in careful English . |
| 2 | Out of kindness to me , the army had allowed them to travel without permission from the Algerians , though we were under orders not to enter Niger without confirmation of clearance . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to take this opportunity of thanking you , Mr … , and all the doctors and nurses here who have shown so much kindness to me . |
| 4 | Bless you for all your kindness to me . |
| 5 | I could attack the capital and kill all the Lilliputians , but when I remembered the King 's past kindness to me , I did not want to do that . |
| 6 | ‘ Sir , ’ I said , ‘ I 'd like to give you something to thank you for your kindness to me since I arrived at the palace . |
| 7 | I thought a lot about his character , and although I was aware of his faults , I also saw his goodness and kindness to me . |
| 8 | I do n't know your name , but I want to thank you for your kindness to me on the night I left Weatherbury . |
| 9 | I would have you stay a week only and behave yourself with kindness to me . |
| 10 | I 'm not likely to forget her kindness to me , so if there 's any way I can help her now … . ’ |
| 11 | And certainly after Sam and Anna 's kindness to me I would n't want to seem ungracious . ’ |
| 12 | Her kindness to me is because I 've expanded those Works . |
| 13 | I well I er i it was just he he sounded like a ponce to me . |
| 14 | ‘ I held my tongue , and spake nothing : I kept silence , yea even from good words ; but it was pain and grief to me ’ the minister droned his voice thin in the unfamiliar acoustics . |
| 15 | Although there have been many marvellous performances that have meant a great deal to me , the most important to me , without doubt , was the only time I heard my first teacher sing . |
| 16 | Not that this mattered a great deal to me . |
| 17 | He 's my dead brother 's son and he means a great deal to me . |
| 18 | ‘ It was a big deal to me at the time , ’ Maria snapped , her tolerance of his perpetual self-absorption vanished along with her brilliant mood . |
| 19 | I 've spent a lot of time on this job — or rather wasted a lot of time — it meant a great deal to me . " |
| 20 | ‘ It always seemed like a pretty big deal to me , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Why am I not allowed to feel the same about something that means a great deal to me ? ’ she retorted fiercely . |
| 22 | When Gyggle first explained this experiment to me I almost laughed at how facile it was . |
| 23 | In working on these activities the class had worked systematically and persistently ; they had collaborated in pairs and groups ; they had identified patterns and structures in the sequences ; they had made predictions and tested them ; they had explained and justified their reasoning to me and to each other ; they had worked practically to understand the sequence and how it could model a real life situation . |
| 24 | She was quite determined to get Rick there and there was no way she was going to give the ring to me . |
| 25 | ‘ Football to me , ’ I said , ‘ is about 22 fit men kicking a ball around a park , not about pot-bellied Freemasons passing the sherry decanter around a centrally heated Portakabin . ’ |
| 26 | She sighed happily , then went on , ‘ We seem to have a prospective buyer and Liz is making frantic signals to me , so I 'd better go . |
| 27 | It was a great bonus to me to be near Sarah , and I frequently went on the bus to Harpenden . |
| 28 | " Although they 're so big , they do n't seem like fighters to me . |
| 29 | I mean , anybody says boo to me , I 'm bubbling . |
| 30 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |