Example sentences of "[pron] [be] a [noun] to they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , he shrugs it all off : ‘ I suppose I was a threat to them . |
| 2 | ‘ I was a disgrace to them in the eyes of their neighbours . ’ |
| 3 | Not like the covenant which I made when I took them by the hand To bring them out of the land of Egypt — my covenant which they broke Although I was a husband to them , says the Lord . |
| 4 | ‘ You are a success to them if you fit in with the culture , particularly when they have gone thousands of miles and built up the clubs themselves . |
| 5 | Dad told me , I ca n't remember what relation she is but she 's a relation to them anyway . |
| 6 | Now , as we 've all known since , oh , the first Crass record at least , rants tend to become extremely boring very quickly unless a ) there 's a point to them and b ) there 's some semblance of a tune to hum along to , and Leatherface have no problems on that score . |
| 7 | ‘ How can anyone be a danger to them ? ’ |
| 8 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 9 | It is a kindness to them to say that they misled you , Holly , you were their plaything . |
| 10 | As Bertrand Russell points out , it was James Mill , active Radical as he was , who in 1831 wrote of Hodgskin 's followers : ‘ Their notions of property look ugly : … they seem to think that it should not exist , and that the existence of it is an evil to them . |
| 11 | So it was a shock to them when , during lunch that Thursday , Jones announced that his Brigham Young University team was preparing to publish its data and offered to let Fleischmann and Pons publish simultaneously . |
| 12 | It was a shock to them , but they stood by me . |
| 13 | It was a credit to them all . |