Example sentences of "familiar to [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the house , one of the rare examples of Sir John Soane 's domestic architecture , was pictured in so many books on the capital 's buildings that its elegant eccentricity was as familiar to him as if he commonly walked these streets and squares . |
| 2 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 3 | He could n't remember her name ; her face was as familiar to him as the frontage of the village shop or outline of the church tower ; he had always been hopeless at names . |
| 4 | It must have been reassuringly familiar to him for it had many of the characteristics of the stone-built villages of the West Riding . |
| 5 | Most of the furniture was familiar to him from boyhood visits to his grandparents , inherited by his aunt as the last of her generation . |
| 6 | This much at least remains unchanged , he thought ; each hill , each tree , each house familiar to him from youth . |
| 7 | Slingsby first visited Norway in 1872 and soon discovered that he was in a country with whose inhabitants he had almost everything in common ; where the language was familiar to him from the vocabulary surviving in the Yorkshire dales , and where the temperament and customs were akin to his own . |
| 8 | There can be little doubt that John Howard , rising from his grave , would find much more that is familiar to him within the prison than across society as a whole . |
| 9 | And then we talked of more interesting things , things by now as familiar to me as legend , in a sort of litany , each speaking in turn . |
| 10 | The old woman 's voice had changed and become as familiar to me as my own . |
| 11 | It was a sight as familiar to me as my own front room . |
| 12 | Unable to say , Because I felt as if I knew you , as if I 'd always known you ; because your face was as familiar to me as my own , she replied weakly , ‘ Sometimes a particular face stands out . |
| 13 | Later , as the aircraft swooped down over many of the fields that were so familiar to me in my detecting rambles around the countryside , I soon realised that the weather had taken its toll on the cropmarks . |
| 14 | The early history was familiar to her from the memoir of the founder which stood in limp green leather covers on Gilbert Racy 's shelves at Betterhouse . |
| 15 | This point should be familiar to you from the discussion of long-wave , world-system and regulationist theories in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 16 | Most of the above will be familiar to you in some form . |
| 17 | But the individual body , so familiar to us on our planet , did not have to exist . |
| 18 | But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis . |
| 19 | It is familiar to us from our own experience . |
| 20 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
| 21 | He was a very real potentate , whose reign ( 37 to 4 B.C. ) extends beyond its biblical context to overlap those of well known secular figures — of Julius Caesar , for instance , Cleopatra , Mark Antony , Augustus and other personages familiar to us from schoolbooks and even from Shakespeare . |
| 22 | The songs are produced by males when they rub their wings together , and are heard by the female through the ears on her front legs ; they are familiar to us from night-time walks , or the vicarious experience of the cinema . |
| 23 | Apollo , unlike Dionysus , is one of the Olympian deities , familiar to us from Homer , and these deities are , in general , Apolline in the given sense . |
| 24 | The stranger to calligraphy may be struck by the fact that none of these cards displays the florid illumination characteristic of the 15th century Books of Hours made so familiar to us by countless commercial reproductions on christmas cards advertised widely in small format ‘ gift ’ catalogues . |
| 25 | In spite of widely different histories and circumstances , many of the joys and sorrows of church music all over the world are familiar to us in this country . |