Example sentences of "[be] to i " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're to me as my own and I 'll not stand cheekiness from either . |
| 2 | She was willing to be used by him and the outrageous request received the obedient , ‘ Let it be to me according to your word ’ ( Luke 1.38 ) . |
| 3 | Oh , what pleasure would it be to me were there a good understanding between my mother and myself , when I am assured if I know my own heart , that I am so far from having any ill against her that I have almost undone myself to serve her … |
| 4 | But we 'll manage something — he 's going to write — I 've given him your address , Bina — when you get a letter from Spain it 'll be to me from him — you will hide them from your parents , wo n't you ? |
| 5 | Little did I know how useful these things were going to be to me in the future . |
| 6 | " Might be to me . |
| 7 | Probably were n't I do n't know but they seemed to us I may be looking at it from a child 's eyes but er that 's how they seemed to be to me . |
| 8 | ‘ And Lady Greensleeves thou wilt be to me . |
| 9 | Come back with me to the place that was and is yours , be to me as you were before . |
| 10 | No I , I just wondered what use it would be to me . |
| 11 | You ca n't imagine how much of a help you 've been to me . |
| 12 | Not only for now , but for everything ; all the help you 've always been to me . ’ |
| 13 | I 'll tell Mama when I see her how good you have been to me . |
| 14 | ‘ How cruel you 've been to me , Catherine ! ’ he cried wildly . |
| 15 | In her heart she thought : Kind as she has been to me , and much as I respect her , your wife , my lord , is the last lady living to whom I am likely to apply . |
| 16 | He saw himself , ten years on , a querulous old man complaining in self-pity : What company have my children ever been to me ? — and forgetting that he had sent them so lightly away from him , Blanche across the sea to Heidelberg , to a husband she had never seen ; Philippa , possibly , to remote Denmark ; Thomas , only this Spring , to be titular governor and keep his court in Ireland , and try to make good the wrack and ruin of castles and garrisons there . |
| 17 | ‘ Your lady , ’ he said warmly , ‘ has been to me the kindest of hostesses and gentlest of nurses . |
| 18 | He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's amazing what a help Olivia has been to me . ’ |
| 20 | Please God , I will be as true to you , as you have been to me ’ |
| 21 | Never been to me . |
| 22 | You 've been to me once ! |
| 23 | But i we 've been to I do n't give a damn what you 've And er of cour naturally enough you see . |
| 24 | Bless you , my own darling wife , for being what you are to me — just everything . |
| 25 | The veil , the train , the imitation orange blossom are all there and are to me wholly incongruous . |
| 26 | JAMES : Well darling , you are to me too . |
| 27 | Simply heated through in the oven with fresh butter , smokies are to me one of the most exquisite of our national specialities . |
| 28 | I tell him that the idea of investigating the life of a beautiful French anthropologist , who , in common with seventy thousand other Jews from France , was gassed ( in a crowd , indistinguishable to the SS as the laibon 's cattle are to me ) , was my starting point . |
| 29 | Cissie , what a comfort you are to me . ’ |
| 30 | I will therefore , sir , dear as you are to me , give up your person to the happier , to my worthier rival . |