Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [noun] to [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There were threats to his academic career , but they came from a different direction . |
| 4 | He went on to say that the use of non-book resources was one aspect in which hoped-for developments had not taken place , and this is typical of the awareness that , despite general satisfaction with the project , there were limits to its success . |
| 5 | The jackal de Guichet , they said , was bad enough , but there were limits to his powers ; but the old lion acknowledged no restrictions within his own honour , his rule was as absolute as plague . |
| 6 | There were details to her description she could have known no other way . ’ |
| 7 | The footpath on the left bank of the burn was little better than a sheep track , but there were clues to its former importance as a droving road over the hills to Byrness in Redesdale . |
| 8 | Before the law received Royal Assent there was resistance to its implementation . |
| 9 | The tenderness that emanated from him was balm to her wounded soul . |
| 10 | It is pleasing that there is a large degree of support for the Southern fire station as I said it was music to my ears . |
| 11 | It was music to our ears in a hospital staffed by women from both sides of the great Christian divide , and men of that ilk also . |
| 12 | The Dungarvan Leader once commended a candidate " with a record of achievement " in these revealing terms : " He has consistently fought in the Waterford County Council ( of which body he has been a member for many years ) for amenities for the town , and it was thanks to his representations that the long-suffering residents of the old road had a footpath provided in front of their homes to prevent flooding . |
| 13 | He was heir to his grandfather , John Pyne of Curry Mallet , who died in 1609 . |