Example sentences of "[pers pn] [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 | Poverty , deepest wisdom , you are slave to nothing , |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Add brains to that particular package , and you 're dynamite to someone like Jason Prior . |
| 9 | She 's kind to everyone , puts everyone before herself , is all things to all people — mother to James , wife to her husband … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She was home to him , even after all the other women . |
| 12 | We 're martyrs to ourselves . |
| 13 | Let them be wives to you . |
| 14 | They are letters to me , to us . |
| 15 | They are matters to which I now turn . |
| 16 | To make it worse , they feel guilty about it ; they think they are failures to themselves , traitors to their sex and threats to their babies . |
| 17 | Such crimes are , by their very nature , difficult to hide , and they are crimes to which the police will devote great effort and resources to solve and ‘ clear up ’ . |
| 18 | They are people to whom the Conservative party is meat and drink and there are few enough eccentrics among them . |
| 19 | But they are guidelines to what acting is basically about . |
| 20 | They 're people to him — not human people , but the same sort of thing , only different . |
| 21 | ‘ They 're servants to you , ’ she said quietly . |
| 22 | The awful , abrupt finality of a man pitching forward , so easily , so arbitrarily terminated — the convenience of it to the killer : they were things to which I could never become habituated , however many times I saw it . |
| 23 | ‘ I would n't know that , they were strangers to me . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The tenderness that emanated from him was balm to her wounded soul . |
| 26 | ) ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | You 've been with us nearly a year now , and it 's thanks to your work that we 're well on the way to managing the volatility problem at high temperatures . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ It 's thanks to you , Fräulein , ’ Erika said . |