Example sentences of "familiar to [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The route to the door of the sanctum was as familiar to him as the limbs he 'd lost . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | This point should be familiar to you from the discussion of long-wave , world-system and regulationist theories in Chapters 1 and 2 . |
| 7 | But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis . |
| 8 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |