Example sentences of "it be [noun] to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ) ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's thanks to you , Fräulein , ’ Erika said . |
| 5 | It 's thanks to you that he 's in this mess right now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It 's news to me ! ’ |
| 8 | When told how Evans had been rumbled , St Helens chairman Eric Latham said : ‘ It 's news to me — but nothing surprises me anymore . |
| 9 | He subsequently served as its legal adviser , and it is thanks to him that it obtained its Light Railway Order and was enabled to operate under a lease agreement until purchase negotiations were concluded . |
| 10 | Publicity officer Frances Hopwood told the Herald : ‘ It would be a difficult task trying to report on the many aspects of Le Court which have benefited from her influence and forward thinking during these 19 years but it is thanks to her that Le Court has evolved to be the ‘ flagship of the Leonard Cheshire Foundation ’ . ’ |
| 11 | So it is thanks to you for coming to these events and thanks to all who contributed to the organisation for between you all it was a most successful day . |
| 12 | With his few belongings it was home to him wherever he went . |
| 13 | He had n't really understood that it was work to her . |
| 14 | It was agony to him to dismiss her . |
| 15 | It was thanks to them that he learned that the hunt was on for a leak on the Washington embassy wartime staff which could only have been Maclean . |
| 16 | She was ringing to say she was settled in a new council bungalow and it was thanks to me . |
| 17 | It was thanks to you all that I humiliated myself at the Harrogate Trade Show . |
| 18 | It was news to her , she had been at home all the time and her husband had taken another ‘ wife ’ . |