Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Now Mrs Pearson was most kind to me over the sale of the house — indeed , but for her kindness I would probably never have got it . |
| 32 | Lucien had had little experience of female-kind in his life , and it was the women of Mandru 's household who were the most kind to him during the first traumatic days of his life there . |
| 33 | I 'm quite used to it in the House of Commons … . |
| 34 | It should have been made quite clear to you from the beginning that MI5 's word on this would be final . ’ |
| 35 | His Lordship could not say the Home Secretary 's decision was not one which was fully open to him in the exercise of his judgment . |
| 36 | They are quite kind to him in the asylum but of course a strait-jacket ca n't be that comfortable . |
| 37 | We all worked and lived at the same place and it seemed pretty cool to me at the time , but it started to become more and more negative until it got to the point where I wanted to leave … and I realised that they would n't let me ! |
| 38 | The world would sound very strange to us through the ears of a frog , for we would hear the calls of other frogs , the noises made by its predators , and little else . |
| 39 | AS YOU CAN imagine , the dozen or so habitations , and their inmates , became very dear to me over the years , and gradually took over from reality . |
| 40 | I can say to my honourable friend , the member for Rydale who takes such a close interest and is so well informed er on these matters , er I 'm very grateful to him for the welcome he 's given for the orders here , he 's absolutely right to say that we have gone beyond er what restrictive called for by Bingham , we have extended it to other sectors in the financial we welcomed the honourable gentleman from Edinburgh Central that these er orders are in some way timid , they are what was called for by the treasury select committee , they are what was proposed er by Bingham and we have er introduced them er here tonight . |
| 41 | It may have been a very naive discovery on my part , but that said something very definite to me about the way we live . |
| 42 | I was very prone to them at the time , mainly because I was undertaking only light and sometimes very spasmodic training . |
| 43 | ‘ But Ken was making it very clear to me from the very beginning that I was not going to get away with anything , ’ Pertwee told me . |
| 44 | I 've got erm proportional space code which is very similar to it on the Microsoft Works . |
| 45 | Within a month Renate had lost her job ( ‘ the complaint was that the girl was too slow ’ ) and had suffered a sharp decline in health , having contracted chronic catarrh , nervous debility and eczema of the scalp ‘ which made her unable to summon up the courage to get a haircut after a hairdresser had been very rude to her on the subject ’ . |
| 46 | Ramsey was very rude to him in the debate . |
| 47 | I wish your husband would make some good , cheap sweets , ’ she said , and then said — almost tenderly — ‘ he was very good to me in the difficult days ’ . |
| 48 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 49 | you 're doing and yet you 're doing this tour of Alfie , which is obviously very important to us in the |
| 50 | Mrs Goreng had been too kind to them in the sense of what to expect . |
| 51 | But our family was too young to me in the war like me brother . |