Example sentences of "[conj] to [pers pn] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a contract made between parties face to face the seller will find it difficult to show that to him the identity of the buyer was a vital factor in deciding to make the contract . |
| 2 | They are polytheists , of course , and to them the ark means only ‘ a god ’ . |
| 3 | However , insects can not see the warning spots , and to them the spider 's disguise is deadly perfect . |
| 4 | " You and I can share , " Andrew would say to Nicandra , and to her the idea , particularly if it was a difficult horse , made her feel at one with him . |
| 5 | Having made two journeys to India and stayed with Indian friends there , I did not find the quote at all out of order , and to me the emphasis naturally fell on the words ‘ now that their lives have been ruined ’ rather than the five preceding words . |
| 6 | The cinema shed a little light on the way of life in America but to them the continent was an unknown place with unintelligible languages . |
| 7 | But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice . |
| 8 | But to me the man is also important . |
| 9 | The men talk as cheerfully as ever ; jests are bandied about freely ; but to me the cheer is sombre and jests are ghastly . ’ |
| 10 | The highland springs are seen as natural but to me the Pennines a rather grimy image . |
| 11 | Luckily there are more of these around now erm but to me the community approach is having people that are aware enough , teachers for instance erm others that are erm happy with these sort of ways , just helping people anybody they meet , just boosting up their confidence , encouraging them to speak , erm giving , you know , praise to each other for a start , rather than putting each other down . |
| 12 | But to her the heat was oppressive , stifling |
| 13 | The closer the Gnostics stood to orthodoxy , the more likely they were to wish to infiltrate the catholic community ; this was especially the case among the Manichees , but they could be detected by their refusal to drink of the eucharistic cup ( since they regarded wine as an invention of the devil ) and to make the sign of the cross ( since to them the suffering of Jesus was no actual event but a symbol for the universal condition of the human race ) . |
| 14 | For to me the stars are mote-like , just twists of dust . |
| 15 | Epsilon ( 4.1 ) , between Beta and Lambda , is also of type M , and is decidedly orange , though to me the colour is much less pronounced than that of Mu . |