Example sentences of "to [pron] [pron] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 2 | And apparently at speech day she was talking to s do you know she had the cheek to say to me she had the cheek to tell somebody to say that I should at least have the decency to go out with someone who 's half looking , half good looking . |
| 3 | In order to cope with the workload allocated to me I have the help of two Assistant Solicitors . |
| 4 | To me it meant the loss of the pure reputation I prized , the good name I had guarded — scandal most horrible a woman could face . |
| 5 | To me it emphasises the speech more strongly , shows the characters breaking into speech rather than hanging up their speech marks to say ‘ Please , may I speak now ? ’ |
| 6 | To me you told the story of the apparitions . |
| 7 | The outcome was — eventually — to be deeply satisfying to everyone who cherishes the ecology and traditions of this wild and beautiful place |
| 8 | ‘ It will be a big welcome back to everyone who missed the display . ’ |
| 9 | Now , the unit price is dropped to unc and a lump sum fee of unc is charged to everyone who buys the good . |
| 10 | Thanks also to everyone who helped the kitchen to do so well . |
| 11 | As SHE went to press , the campaign for registration was debated in the House of Lords to whom we sent the results of the SHE survey . |
| 12 | These chose to live a life of poverty and charity supported by their own manual labours and loosely affiliated to local religious houses , from whom they might receive spiritual guidance , and to whom they gave the proceeds of their work . |
| 13 | Taxpayers who wish to take advantage of the new practice for valuations currently being negotiated should write to the inspector to whom they submitted the claim . |
| 14 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 15 | Another relative and rector of the Patrimony was James , son of John Odoline , a cousin , and count of Andria , who had been papal marshal and commander of Innocent 's troops in Sicily in 1200 – 1201 , to whom he granted the fortress of Ninfa on the southern border . |
| 16 | But when Charlie was staying at Eva 's house he spent hours with my father , to whom he told the truth . |
| 17 | Barfield , to whom he dedicated The Allegory of Love , describes a moment when he read Lewis 's ‘ Open Letter to Dr Tillyard ’ . |
| 18 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 19 | These points are well illustrated in John Warton 's narration of his talk with a woman in the last stages of consumption , to whom he gives the name ‘ Mary Barton ’ . |
| 20 | The man who ladles the food into the steel bowl on the tray can not see the face of the man to whom he gives the food . |
| 21 | Lupold was never acceptable to the pope ( to whom he remained the bishop of Worms who had transferred himself to Mainz without papal licence ) and when at the end of 1204 Philip saw hope of victory he made a bad move by sending Lupold to Italy . |
| 22 | He also suggested that quite apart from the accountant 's employer or client , he owed a duty to any third person to whom he shows the accounts or to whom he knows the employer will show the accounts with a view to persuading that person to invest or take some other action . |
| 23 | What a superb role he has invented for himself , the English gentleman who stands disdainfully aside from the vulgar squabbles of this Latin rabble to whom he has the misfortune to be related ! |
| 24 | Neither political system could rely with confidence on those to whom it entrusted the task of educating the peasants . |
| 25 | Mary Queen of Scots chose black morocco emblazoned with the royal lion of Scotland ; the French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert had his 50,000 books bound in a morocco specially imported by treaty with the Sultan of Morocco ; one of the d'Urfe family opted for green velvet for his library of four thousand ; Madame du Deffand , friend of Voltaire and Horace Walpole ( to whom she left the care of her dog Tonton ) , endeavoured to immortalise her cat by using a gold stamp of it on the spines of her books ; the three daughters of Louis V each had her own colour with the fleur-de-lis in the centre of each cover — Adelaide red , Victoire olive green and Sophie citron . |
| 26 | While I found this amusing ( if rather regional ) , a real beginner in computing to whom I lent the book found it very off-putting . |
| 27 | If however I had to single out one particular group of teachers to whom I hope the book will appeal , it is those who have been in the profession for about five to ten years . |
| 28 | The choice of the latter led Leavis , to whom I sent the paper later , to expostulate , but at that time I thought that Read was heading for an eminence which , at least as a creative writer , he never attained . |
| 29 | In John 's Gospel , Jesus , when asked to identify the man who will betray him , answers , ‘ It is the one to whom I give the piece of bread that I shall dip in the dish . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ May I know to whom I have the pleasure … ? ’ |