Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I to you fathers , because you have known him is who is from the beginning . |
| 2 | So we I to your children because your sins have been giv forgiven on account of you believing upon his name . |
| 3 | Erm this policy in my to my mind does n't actually er exclude those exceptions being made . |
| 4 | Only as we begin to respond personally to the text 's content and open ourselves to its message ( irrespective of whether the consequence of this is an acceptance , modification , or rejection of it ) do we go beyond a mere decoding or perception of the words and begin to perceive meanings . |
| 5 | Surely that 's a better way to deal with machismo than trying to deafen ourselves to its allure . |
| 6 | ‘ At first , we thought it would be too beautiful to use , ’ admitted Peter , ‘ but we accustomed ourselves to its ways . ’ |
| 7 | For many of us , our efforts fail us and we resign ourselves to our limitations . |
| 8 | The answer … is not to resign ourselves to our women 's role — in a woman 's place — and demand payment for staying put , but to collectivise childcare , to share the responsibility for bringing up children within the community . |
| 9 | By the time we reached Totnes , in Devon , we had abandoned ourselves to our despair . |
| 10 | As mothers and doctors we benefit from being able to continue our medical careers while devoting ourselves to our families ; our patients have access to female doctors sympathetic to the experience of raising a young family ; and our practice is enriched by our contributions on the broadest range of issues from the clinical to the practical . |
| 11 | We finished on our knees , giving God our fears and committing ourselves to His battle for Rhodesia . |
| 12 | Then we took turns at the dressing table , plastering our faces with lotions , creams , lipstick and eye shadow , and helping ourselves to my mother 's " Arpège " . |
| 13 | Or perhaps Mrs A is holding forth on her views on battered wives or battery hens or baptizing babies , really with the hope of having a head-on argument or of converting someone to her way of thinking . |
| 14 | A flush of embarrassment rose to her cheeks at her own uncharacteristic forwardness and she lapsed into an unhappy silence , which to her surprise the Frenchman broke a minute later . |
| 15 | She loved the night sky , brilliant with stars , which to her town dweller 's eyes , seemed much nearer to earth here in East Anglia . |
| 16 | That 's the thing , apparent apparently I could n't even walk straight , and yet there 's me fucking climbing up the outside of a building , which to me sounds about right . |
| 17 | Er if you couple that with the action of Eastern Arts who I understand have cut the subsidy er for this er theatre I think that 's correct , erm , as I understand on the grounds that a not enough they mean imaginative or progressive which to me means weird play to put on . |
| 18 | A solicitor may not accept instructions in a matter in which to his knowledge another solicitor has been retained without the consent of that other solicitor , nor should a solicitor instructed in a particular matter communicate directly with anyone who has retained a solicitor on the other side , though a direct approach may be justified if there has been difficulty in making contact with that solicitor . |
| 19 | One night when his parents were out David returned to the scene ; as expected everything was quiet not even a walker with a dog was passing through , David cautiously approached the old hut , he peered through a crack in the battens before going round to the door which to his surprise was ajar . |
| 20 | I consented and , likewise , I wanted to explore the thicket of your thighs , which to my delight I found heavy with vernal dew . |
| 21 | The latest suggestion of Crown Street prompts me to write an alternative which to my knowledge has not yet been considered . |
| 22 | I gave him a piece , which to my horror he popped straight into his mouth , for it was surely large enough to kill some half-dozen dragoons together with their horses . |
| 23 | She finally made it to university , after which to my regret I lost touch with her . |
| 24 | I would n't quibble with any of the other species you say are not suitable but please avoid this blight on the poor Hatchet which to my mind is a rewarding and unusual species in any community . |
| 25 | This solo is a very good example of Trevor Rabin 's playing style , which to my mind always contains an effective blend of taste and melody , combined with a very well-rounded technique . |
| 26 | We used the Medellin documents as our guide and behind the discussions was our belief that only with structural changes in society could we form a truly Christian society , which to our way of thinking would also be a socialist society . |
| 27 | We chose the best of a not too brilliant bunch , made a ludicrous offer which to our astonishment was accepted , and we were on the road . |
| 28 | Any trawl through the columns of local papers of the time catches a number of cases of cruelty to apprentices which to our age , shocked by revelations of child abuse , suggests the tip of an iceberg . |
| 29 | The modern popularity of burger bars , coated nuggets , and ready-made stir-fry mixes owes much to our growing repugnance at the bleeding carcases , the veins , the sinews , which to our grandparents were an everyday sight . |
| 30 | The reasonable conclusion is that one and the same thing is ‘ called a sensation when considered merely in itself , and a quality when looked at in relation to any one of the numerous objects , the presence of which to our organs excites in our minds that among various other sensations or feelings . |