Example sentences of "[be] to he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more parental devotion to reading and the child 's belief in its magic propensities coincide , the easier time a child will have in learning to read , and the more important and enjoyable reading will be to him . |
| 2 | What use would a comic be to him , he would n't be able to understand the words . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , Um Yusef , ’ she said , putting down her sewing , ‘ first , of course , you must pray , for prayer to God makes the mind quiet , reminds you that your life is in His hands and that all is well , truly , thanks be to Him . |
| 4 | Thanks be to Him she 's conscious again . |
| 5 | How precious would this car be to him ? |
| 6 | Of what interest could her present lifestyle be to him ? |
| 7 | I know what I am to him . |
| 8 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 9 | To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier : |
| 10 | What have I been to him ? ’ |
| 11 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 12 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |
| 13 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 14 | er I think we get a saturation point and the thing that annoys me is that young fellow who came to the club had a got , we got a special went to the special trouble of getting a for him and I can not get it off him and he lives up Newton way somewhere I 've been to him three times |
| 15 | But though certain extremely powerful individuals — like Kraus and his mother — enslave him , it is people , ‘ ordinary ’ folk who are to him completely extraordinary , who free him from the greatest enchanter of them all — books . |
| 16 | The 40 Class 158 units , part of the £70 million re-equipping programme allocated up until the end of this year , are to him ‘ the ultimate gesture to show we will keep good faith with the councils and other investors . ’ |
| 17 | However , when we recognize that God is able to rule over our personal woundedness , then we begin to appreciate how profoundly indebted we are to him . |
| 18 | ‘ Your husband may well be decent , kind and generous to you , but all you are to him is a decorative object . |
| 19 | What a boon you are to him , Opal , my dear . |
| 20 | What are to him these tales of ancient days |
| 21 | If you 're nice to him — I wo n't use the language over the air ( because you 'd be shut down ) that he uses to me — however nice you are to him it does n't make a bit of difference . |
| 22 | He clicked the intercom again and said , ‘ Miss Bassett , all calls regarding the Briant project are to he switched to me from here on in . |
| 23 | Three divisions are to he established to deal with |
| 24 | Women cast down , on whom life had left its mark , were to him sisters under the skin regardless of station . |
| 25 | The roots torn up and bleeding on the ground and the woman smashed by life 's storms were to him interchangeable images . |
| 26 | He had not yet abandoned Christianity , and he would never abandon Christ , but the dogmas preached by his father were to him false . |
| 27 | In his planned county palatine Gloucester was to hold in fee simple , in Cumberland the grants were to him and the heirs male of his body . |
| 28 | It is clearly inconsistent for one who calls Jesus " Lord " to think lightly of those scriptures which were to him the supreme revelation of God . |
| 29 | So far as I am aware , Eliot was not a concert-goer , but chamber music in the home — which in his case meant somebody else 's home — and above all the last Quartets of Beethoven , were to him a source of more than aesthetic pleasure . |
| 30 | Although I realized that my faulty literary judgment was the occasion for his reaction — for he must have been well-accustomed to reading manuscripts of surpassing dullness — because when lie wrote to Wakefield-Harrey it was in firm but polite terms , which , since they were from Eliot , were to him the next best thing to commendation . |