Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Church member to minister : ‘ You 'll never know what your sermon meant to me , it was like water to a drowning man ’ |
| 32 | When I first bowled to him in the nets I said it was like bowling to Zaheer Abbas . |
| 33 | No application was made for bail after the court heard that he was at risk to himself and others due to the nature of the crime . |
| 34 | I knew he was under contract to Warners , where I had worked . |
| 35 | Yardley bore all these setbacks with great dignity , afflicted as he was from time to time by a form of lumbago that almost certainly hastened his retirement . |
| 36 | He was from time to time ordered to raise money by leasing out assarts and waste lands , and by organizing and supervising sales of timber and underwood . |
| 37 | In any event , on this picture , he was from time to time spectacularly taken with a seizure of one kind or another . ’ |
| 38 | If the heir was a child , he was in wardship to the lord : the lord was his legal guardian and had control of the estates and of the person of the ward until he came of age . |
| 39 | ‘ She liked to believe he was in line to be the next PM . |
| 40 | ULSTER Unionist councillor John Adams today dampened speculation that he was in line to be Londonderry 's next deputy mayor . |
| 41 | But he was in thrall to Deuce , who now reappeared in the distance followed by an over-liveried porter who was carrying two large suitcases . |