Example sentences of "he was a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | First Javed Miandad was definitely out with a back injury ; then he was a possible addition to the team ; finally he was included , and will become , with his captain Imran Khan , the only player to take part in all five World Cup competitions . |
| 2 | He was a liberal benefactor to many public institutions , and bequeathed some of his estate to the University of Oxford . |
| 3 | He was a good person to be in the band in the early days but he might have held them back later on because he is not as good a drummer as Simon , and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 4 | He was a good person to be with , even if he did laugh at her . |
| 5 | Fernande Olivier , Picasso 's mistress , described him as stingy , but he was a good friend to Modigliani , encouraged him to paint and lent him colours , brushes and canvas . |
| 6 | He was a good friend to me in difficult times . |
| 7 | He was a good friend to me . |
| 8 | ‘ He was a good son to his mother and generous and loving to his … companions , ’ the word was chosen with obvious care and uttered with thinly-concealed disapproval , ‘ but he was very ambitious . |
| 9 | Methven was later to create an embarrassing scandal among the godly , when he was publicly deposed for adultery in 1562 — a sin which did not prevent him finding a niche among the ministry of the Church of England — but in 1558 he was a major asset to the Protestants , preaching not only in Dundee but , during the summer months , in other parts of Angus and in Fife . |
| 10 | Lewis had got to know him because he was a frequent visitor to Oxford , anxious to get a job in the Oxford English Faculty , and a friend not only of Tolkien but also of Nevill Coghill . |
| 11 | Whilst Keith Vaughan was art director for John Lehmann 's publishing house , he was a frequent visitor to their near neighbours in Hamilton Terrace , Hamish and Yvonne Hamilton . |
| 12 | He was a dear friend to many and will be greatly and sadly missed . |
| 13 | He was a comparative stranger to the London men , hardly committed to the same extent as local leaders such as Ben Tillett , John Burns , Tom Mann and Tom Walsh , his own union 's delegate . |
| 14 | Mr de Bellaigue has 30 years ' experience as an investment analyst , much of it spent following the publishing and printing sectors , on which he was a regular contributor to The Bookseller . |
| 15 | He was a regular contributor to many of the leading newspapers and periodicals ; his weekly articles for the Manchester Guardian were republished in two series of Collections and Recollections ( 1898 ) . |
| 16 | As early as 1895 he was a regular contributor to the Engineer and Engineering , taking the great engineers of the day to task over technical issues , and he soon became well known . |
| 17 | He was a regular visitor to Walton and also joined one of the cadet crews every year on one of the regular deployments to Belgium , Holland and France . |
| 18 | In the Seventies he was a regular visitor to Joe Allens in Covent Garden where he went with his mother . |
| 19 | He was a discreet consultant to King Hassan , whom he had first met when Hassan was a young prince . |
| 20 | He was a distant cousin to James IV but his father had been exiled to France so he had been reared and educated in the French fashion . |
| 21 | He was a gentle opponent to a weak Government . |
| 22 | He was a congenial colleague to A. E. Housman [ q.v. ] , and in 1936 , the year of Housman 's death , brought out a brief memoir which , though mainly concerned with Housman 's scholarship , throws more light upon him than almost any of the studies by literary persons . |
| 23 | How many know he was a prominent contributor to this magazine ? |
| 24 | He was a virtual stranger to others living in Evesham Court and police still have n't confirmed his identity . |
| 25 | He was a great loss to the police . |
| 26 | Very tall , usually wearing a cap and carrying a basket on each arm , he was a real trouper to all of them . |
| 27 | By the time he could toddle he was a constant worry to his mother , because he was ‘ into everything ’ and could not left alone for a minute . |
| 28 | He was a main contributor to the photographic exhibition held in the Great Room of the Society of Arts in London in 1852 , which was the first of its kind . |
| 29 | Effeminate , spoilt and faithless , he was a bitter disappointment to her , and was so thoroughly despised by the rest of the Court that when she became pregnant there were rumours about the child having possibly been fathered by one of her favourites . |
| 30 | He was a true friend to sport , and cared no less for the manner in which success was achieved than for success itself . |