Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun] to [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am dust to you , Joe , no more than mouldering bones … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I was Ronni to everyone before I could even walk . ’ |
| 3 | I admit I was party to their tricks for a while but in Brittany the Luciferi began to remove , through assassination or spurious trials , any who opposed the French crown . |
| 4 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 5 | ‘ I could understand it with the men , who thought I was coming-on to them , but the women 's reluctance puzzled me , until I discovered that the City people discouraged the country dwellers ( she objects to the word ‘ peasant ’ ) from having their picture taken . |
| 6 | In his memoirs , which are monuments to his own consistency , he answered this question in the negative : while admitting that he had no pre-established plan ( naturally since that would have been the kind of dogmatic thinking that he abhorred ) , he insisted that " the broad outlines were fixed in my mind … |
| 7 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 8 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
| 9 | Abundance thus rapidly acquired by those who were ignorant of its proper application hastened the progress of luxury and licentiousness , and the lower orders were almost universally corrupted by profusion and depravity scarcely to be credited by those who are strangers to our district . |
| 10 | Poverty , deepest wisdom , you are slave to nothing , |
| 11 | ‘ Forgive me , ’ Athelstan said quietly , ‘ I do not wish to call you liars but there is a great mystery here and you are party to it . ’ |
| 12 | Add brains to that particular package , and you 're dynamite to someone like Jason Prior . |
| 13 | She 's kind to everyone , puts everyone before herself , is all things to all people — mother to James , wife to her husband … |
| 14 | How , she asked herself in those early days , has it come about that I , daughter to a humble carpenter and a washerwoman , have become the companion and confidante of her who is close to the throne , who is sister-in-law to him who will one day be King of England ? |
| 15 | She was godmother to my baby , and when it grew she took to it , and used to have it about her at the Castle , saying to everyone it was an orphan . |
| 16 | She was home to him , even after all the other women . |
| 17 | We 're martyrs to ourselves . |
| 18 | Let them be wives to you . |
| 19 | But there are limits to its tolerance . |
| 20 | Yet there are limits to their inventive adaptability , limits beyond which we often push them . |
| 21 | Obviously there are limits to what you can achieve , but you will not know what those limits are until you embark upon a programme of good nutritious eating and appropriate exercise . |
| 22 | There are limits to what they can say in explaining their beliefs , the sort of limits which we tend to accept when imagining the constraints upon giving a blind person some understanding of what the world looks like ( although , as said , it would be wrong to suppose that we could communicate nothing in such circumstances ) . |
| 23 | So , if there are limits to what we can do , and if the development of technology brings costs as well as benefits , we now must face the second question : under what circumstances do we either develop or apply a particular technology ? |
| 24 | In France , as everywhere , there are limits to what is politically possible . |
| 25 | At the same time , research evidence about how people view this in practice conveys a sense of boundaries : that there are limits to what one can reasonably expect relatives to do , and to what a person would want to rely on relatives for . |
| 26 | But there are limits to what such a institution can achieve . |
| 27 | There are limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits to what BAT can achieve , but within those limits it is flexible . |
| 28 | Government on these terms is tolerable if the party in power recognises that there are limits to what it is entitled to do . ’ |
| 29 | I think there are limits to what we can manage here on the premises because it disrupts life a bit . |
| 30 | There are limits to what I 'd dare and |