Example sentences of "be to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | now it 's got big shops they 're , they 're to they 're top of the range and all now . |
| 2 | You 're to me as my own and I 'll not stand cheekiness from either . |
| 3 | We 'll deal with that when it comes , we 're to it yet , anywhere near . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What use would a comic be to him , he would n't be able to understand the words . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Thanks be to Him she 's conscious again . |
| 8 | How precious would this car be to him ? |
| 9 | Of what interest could her present lifestyle be to him ? |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Little did I know how useful these things were going to be to me in the future . |
| 14 | " Might be to me . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ And Lady Greensleeves thou wilt be to me . |
| 17 | Come back with me to the place that was and is yours , be to me as you were before . |
| 18 | No I , I just wondered what use it would be to me . |
| 19 | The characteristic Christian theme was most at variance with pagan assumptions in that bishops asked husbands to be as faithful to their wives as they expected their wives to be to them . |
| 20 | Naturally they accepted , knowing how invaluable his expertise would be to them . |
| 21 | ‘ It may be to them , but it is n't to me ; it 's still just a pile of bricks . ’ |
| 22 | And every time the Sun shall display His Rising Light , It shall be to them a new Wedding-Day ; And when he sets , a new Nuptial-Night , |
| 23 | She suspected that the Bishop and the Archdeacon had invited her to the meeting more to enlist her help as a sleuth than as a source of information of a kind which might be to them , in any case , unwelcome . |
| 24 | ‘ The idea was n't greeted with much enthusiasm at first , ’ he says , ‘ But we continued plugging away at the distillers and mounted a back-selling campaign to the airline industry , pointing out what a boon light-weight ‘ Melinar ’ containers would be to them for their in-flight miniatures and duty-free supplies . |
| 25 | ‘ What good would they be to us ? |
| 26 | And the fact that he 's a left-hand drive he 's erm perhaps not got quite the view out of his offside mirror , or our offside mirror it would be to us , that perhaps somebody like yourselves have with er a right-hand drive vehicle . |
| 27 | Yet just how helpful will it be to us ? |
| 28 | So above all acknowledgments , I want to thank God for his inexpressible generosity in giving the Holy Spirit to us fallen human beings , to be to us both the means of grace and the hope of glory . |
| 29 | I have also purchased a monograph of Parrots from a Mr Lear — When you and I are old men — how pleasing it will be to us to look at these together to quiz them all , and pass our We to upon them ! |
| 30 | The classroom that offers a pleasant and interesting environment for all the pupils working in it is likely to be well suited to the visually handicapped pupil as it will be to his fully sighted classmates . |