Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [noun] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am dust to you , Joe , no more than mouldering bones … ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | She was home to him , even after all the other women . |
| 9 | Let them be wives to you . |
| 10 | So an annuity ca n't fall once you 've bought it it 's guaranteed , so you can see there are advantages to it . |
| 11 | To have a successful outcome to this issue all parties concerned must feel there are benefits to them . |
| 12 | and what I want to do is to look at it er over that particular period so I can explain everything to you in full because there are benefits to you in terms of tax savings |
| 13 | Now he is known as The Man Who Changed the World , and there are statues to him everywhere . |
| 14 | This gate presumably led to a quay , or docks , and there are references to it in some Saxon charters . |
| 15 | A lot more sort of individual builders and self-employed people like me and Chas will be more aware of things like this and that there are alternatives to it . |
| 16 | And then there is B to it , what ? |
| 17 | The annexe need not have been roofed , although there was access to it from the main part of the building . |
| 18 | They are letters to me , to us . |
| 19 | They 're people to him — not human people , but the same sort of thing , only different . |
| 20 | ‘ They 're servants to you , ’ she said quietly . |
| 21 | ‘ I would n't know that , they were strangers to me . ’ |
| 22 | Here , she took a step back and called on Ferdinando to discuss Garibaldi and his Red Shirts and the promises of Cavour — they were names to her and nothing more . |
| 23 | ) ‘ It is not a beauty , to be sure , ’ Coleridge wrote to Poole on 28 November ; ‘ but it 's vicinity to you shall overbalance it 's Defects . ’ |
| 24 | If we 've done well this year , and we have , it 's thanks to her — ’ Gasping , a hand pressed to his chest , he collapsed on his bed . |
| 25 | I 'm an old hand at Falcon Sailing — it 's thanks to them I know that a holding tank 's nothing to do with the Russians in Prague . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's thanks to you , Fräulein , ’ Erika said . |
| 27 | It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now . |
| 28 | It 's afternoon keep saying that it 's afternoon it 's morning to me this afternoon pick up your phone and give me a ring now O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 29 | It 's news to me ! ’ |
| 30 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |