Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to her but if I so I can say hello to some people , you know if only because er little girl , the little girl in Miss 's class now I , I to me that |
| 2 | I to you dear children , because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name . |
| 3 | I to you dear children because you have known the father . |
| 4 | I to you young men because you are strong and the word of God lives in you and you have overcome the evil one . |
| 5 | Erm you know we sort of seem to limp from one meeting to another without really committing ourselves to anything much . |
| 6 | If we do not commit ourselves to our world-wide lost neighbours , then we do not care about them . |
| 7 | no particular reason for the rise its general movements and not a serious movement as far as we 're concerned includes the whole element of debtors from ourselves to our wholesale debtors which is our own manufacturing operation where they 're selling to outside customers there 's nothing particularly significant in that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This is not the same as being someone to whom other people often bring their problems ; that does not guarantee the instinctive knowledge of whether something is real or merely a " try-on " , or whether something that is being glosssed over is really something that should be dug out and gone into in depth , or whether the time has come to say and do nothing other than give encouragement to the sufferer to work something out for himself or herself with the assistance of other sufferers in the group . |
| 10 | There were certain rituals which to my young mind looked like magic . |
| 11 | Somewhere on another plane of existence she knew that he was pacing himself , tuning himself to her slower needs : that his tiny muted cries of painful frustration were evidence of his consideration as he aroused her to an aching , trembling plateau of desire . |
| 12 | Kaptan was to apply himself to something useful . |
| 13 | Soon he was able to devote himself to it full time . |
| 14 | Before he does so , however , he has a vision of what his life should and would have been had he not voluntarily submitted himself to his final sacrifice . |
| 15 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 16 | He found the King 's strength and confidence increasing and he had no doubts about his fitness to rule ; but the King was still anxious for time in which to adjust himself to his new station and duties . |
| 17 | He retired from politics in 1895 , and devoted himself to his other two enthusiasms , religion and books . |
| 18 | Lojze Peterle resigned as President of the Executive Council ( Prime Minister ) , saying afterwards that he would devote himself to his political party work ( as leader of the Christian Democratic Party ) . |
| 19 | Nicol had betaken himself to his due place among the servants , and Tutilo , silent and self-effacing among such distinguished company , was down at the end among the clerks and chaplains , and wary of opening his mouth even there . |
| 20 | He said that he took to writing novels to support himself and his family and to enable him to devote himself to his religious writings and poems . |
| 21 | He was again imprisoned in 1677 for six months for failing to attend the Church of England 's services , but for the remainder of his life was free , devoting himself to his pastoral duties and his writings . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it is obvious that by limiting himself to his own observations in a remote valley , he would soon exhaust his material : he therefore drew on Dorothy 's Journals and upon other people 's experiences , for example in Alice Fell , The Solitary Reaper ( observed by Wilkinson who ‘ Passed a female who was reaping alone ’ ) , and The Kitten and Falling Leaves ( rough draft by Coleridge printed in Notebooks , vol. i , 1813 ) . |
| 23 | He had subjected himself to his own personal therapy , requiring himself to sit alone in a hospital room and speak of those happenings aloud . |
| 24 | The Secretary of State should apply himself to his own evidence . |
| 25 | No doubt busy proving himself to his latest admirer . |
| 26 | Congratulations to Catherine Hopkins , a member of Barbara Norton 's Finchampstead class , who to her other qualifications ( she 's a pharmacy technician , a cordon bleu cook and a herbalist ) has added a private pilot 's licence . |
| 27 | He sat next to Katja Müller who to his pleasant surprise made a practice of turning to speak to him as often as to her supposed escort Lapointe . |
| 28 | Once again a big thank you to everyone involved in these projects and best of luck to you all for future fund raising activities . |
| 29 | While some of us have sought to help , the real weight of responsibility has fallen on his shoulders and those of his wife and I 'm sure all members of Council will join with me in saying a very real thank you to them both . |
| 30 | Erm , secondly to introduce you to our new review system whereby we do a complete item review the situation to see how your existing policies are working and how they fit into what you want out of life . |