Example sentences of "'ve [be] a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your conductors ' competitions brought on some new talent , beginning with the Finnish conductor Okko Kamu , who won the first competition in 1969 ; and you 've been a great help to most of the new generation of top conductors — Abbado , Ozawa , and so on . |
| 2 | I 've been a poor father to you . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been a real help to me , Carrie . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I just wanted to say that , we would of course be very sorry to lose you , you 've been a tremendous asset to the Department , even in the short time you 've been here . |
| 5 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You 've been a good son to me , ’ the old man said . |
| 7 | Then he said slowly : ‘ I hope I 've been a good father to you . ’ |
| 8 | I hope I 've been a good father to you . |
| 9 | You 've been a wonderful sister to me , dearest . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've been a devoted wife to him and done nothing wrong in our marriage , ’ said Debbie , 33 , at their £1 million home at the Palm Beach Polo Club , in Wellington , Florida yesterday . |