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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bereft to" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English
It is not a standard expression and may confuse readers. Example: "He felt bereft to find that his childhood home had been demolished."
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It will also leave you feeling utterly bereft to no longer be in its company.
Despite last week's rare misstep, we should still be bereft to see all this go.
"I fell in love with it and was almost bereft to finish it," recalls Mushens.
I fell in love with it and was almost bereft to finish it".
He doesn't get his hopes up, though - he knows it is perfectly normal for those bereft to spot the recently deceased mingling nonchalantly with the crowd.
Rowan the Strange (Oxford, £10.99) is a rich, odd, brave book about tough subjects, populated by characters you cannot but warm to (and feel bereft to leave behind when the time comes).
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In one sensitively written scene after another, Billingham probes the lives of the "other victims" of the homicides, from bereft parents to kindly neighbors to perfect strangers.
It is understood that you will feel bereft, need to be alone, need to fall apart and slowly rebuild yourself.
Florent's message to bereft New Yorkers is to accept change.
In part it is because the approach gives an interesting weight to the women in the play - Constance, the bereft mother to little Arthur, and John's niece, Blanche, a convenient pawn to be used in the Anglo-French struggle.
Arthur is left bereft, only to die at the end, wondering if it is possible to govern at all.
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