Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was my blood because he had given me mouth to mouth resuscitation . |
| 2 | ‘ We have now allocated five new frequencies to BR and given them access to two others . ’ |
| 3 | But how could I have explained my actions to Mum , having promised to turn up and see her ? |
| 4 | ‘ By the time you 'd ripped my character to shreds , lectured me on my grasping capitalist principles , then forced yourself to be nice to me out of commendable loyalty to your family firm , I was hooked . |
| 5 | and , and now , and now you have ripped my friendship to shreds , |
| 6 | ‘ Are you telling me you have n't posted my letter to Richard ? |
| 7 | ‘ Magnificence , I have given my oath to no man . ’ |
| 8 | I 've given my word to her mother that I will see to it that she does — she would n't have been allowed to come here on holiday otherwise , she would have been shut up in her mother 's apartment in Rome . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But I have given my word to la Principessa , I have said I would ask you to come with me , and you have agreed . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've given my life to looking after my father and my brother . |
| 11 | The Brighton-based fighter , who stopped Benn in their WBO middleweight title fight in November 1990 , added : I 've nothing to prove by fighting Benn again , so if we do meet I 've got to be given my passport to retirement . ’ |
| 12 | Once again , I 'd given my film to David . |
| 13 | I could have given my information to any of your officers but I prefer to tell you because I must be guaranteed that the source of the information is kept secret . |
| 14 | I have given my consent to his being in my study , but on this occasion the initiative was mine . |
| 15 | In order to avoid the hot weather my mother had preceded my father to England , escorted as far as Jibuti by an official from the Sudan who was temporarily serving at the Legation . |
| 16 | Yes , I will be honest , Rachel Santerre , or more correctly Rachel Mortimer , chilled my soul to the marrow . ) |
| 17 | I had considered my body to be lumpy , untidy , anomalous and entirely unsuited to the person within . |
| 18 | The Malthusian League had addressed its message to the working class , emphasising birth control as the only remedy for poverty , and had met with understandable hostility from leading ( male ) socialists . |
| 19 | She might as well have addressed her request to the tablecloth . |
| 20 | Initially , a sheriff held that the case could go ahead at Greenock Sheriff Court but Mr Anderson , 22 , of Nelson Road , Gourock , has won its transfer to the Court of Session . |
| 21 | The good news from the Beacon Centre is that two of the men who have been coming along have committed their lives to Jesus . |
| 22 | Any one who is saved , any one who is a Christian , who is a follower of Jesus Christ , who has committed their life to Christ , who has received his forgiveness , and who belongs to him , any one is ready and able to receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 23 | But you know , for the person who does not know Jesus Christ as their saviour , for the person who has never committed their life to God listen to what God says for that person . |
| 24 | There is the difference for the person who has put their trust in God who has committed their life to Christ and they will go and you and I will go through those storms , and through those tempests , and be knocked around and be , almost swamped by them but the thing is we are not alone Jesus Christ , he is in the boat of your life with you . |
| 25 | The Soviet and East European participants , however , were obliged in return to give their agreement to the so-called ‘ Basket 3 ’ , which concerned the movement of people and ideas between East and West in areas such as tourism , the reunification of families and access to printed and other media The Final Act also committed its signatories to a series of follow-up meetings , designed to monitor the fulfilment of the agreement ; the first of these was held in Belgrade in 1977 , and the second in Madrid in 1980 . |
| 26 | How to achieve a political settlement without antagonizing an army which had committed its honour to the goal of total , unconditional victory ? |
| 27 | The revised draft committed its participants to a ‘ sovereign federal democratic state ’ based upon a voluntary union of republics with equal rights , each of which would have the right to choose its own forms of property and government . |
| 28 | Anna had dropped her voice to a whisper . |
| 29 | APENALTY of nine places against the Australian yacht Prime Factor has dropped her team to third overall in the NorTel Southern Cross Cup series and lifted Britain to second . |
| 30 | Amelia Putt had dropped her objection to the wedding of one of her employees taking place in chapel and not church when she learned the identity of Tom 's bride-to-be . |