Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One indication of current priorities is that Making Belfast Work has less money committed to it in total over four years than is spent on prisons in a single year . |
| 2 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | I assure my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) that an examination of other elected assemblies which can be paralleled to ours in Europe , America or elsewhere shows that we in the British House of Commons spend three , four or even five times longer debating legislation . |
| 4 | How could she get through an evening in his company when everything that was female in her responded to him in a way that knocked her totally off balance ? |
| 5 | The comparison will not show British progress in a very nattering light , for although Traffic in Towns was a hugely influential report in its day , nothing of significance has been added to it in the UK in a quarter of a century . |
| 6 | North of the River Cam , re-using the older Roman town , was the late eighth-century Mercian burgh which had another fortified town south of the river crossing added to it in the late ninth century by the Danish soldiers and traders . |
| 7 | The footpath passes ( on the right ) the Beroldingen castle which probably occupies the site of the earlier castle of 1530 ; attached is a chapel added to it in 1546 by Josua von Beroldingen when he was accepted into the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . |
| 8 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 9 | His words had come to her in snatches , barely audible . " |
| 10 | He had come to her in the night . |
| 11 | She thought she might have , that he had come to her in her sleep , whispered to her as he was whispering to her now , but she had forced the dream images away , she had denied them as she had denied what he wanted of her from the beginning . |
| 12 | I am a recent subscriber , having recently renewed my subscription for a second year and I have enjoyed every issue that has come to me in the post . |
| 13 | I strongly felt that Resenence had come to me in the dream and yet , when I awoke , when the morning came , I told myself I had created it myself . |
| 14 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 15 | Dependence , together with its reciprocal nurturance , is an important structural and emotional dimension in nearly all social relationships , both between human beings and between humans and the ‘ spirit ’ helpers who have come to them in dreams to seek affiliation with the human world . |
| 16 | Jesus had not left them orphans : he had come to them in the person of the Spirit , who was not only the special gift of the Messiah to the messianic people in order to enable them to know his continued presence with them , but was the first instalment of the Age to Come , the pledge that the last days which had dawned with Jesus of Nazareth would , one day , come to God 's perfect conclusion . |
| 17 | ‘ So the folk of the village capitalized on this gift from the gods , that had come to them in their darkest hour . |
| 18 | Bernard told Ellen that Nerina had come to him in tears . |
| 19 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 20 | The important thing , the only thing that really mattered to her in those tense and anxious moments , was to reach and be united with Edward … |
| 21 | Time after time , woman admitted to me that their partner 's success not only mattered to them in terms of money , but was a crucial component in their respect and desire for these men . |
| 22 | It was held that the applicants lacked a sufficient interest in the matter because the Revenue had acted within the discretion permitted to it in the day-to-day administration of the tax system . |
| 23 | Judge Hand 's refusal to comply with the request addressed to him in the Mexico City case rested on two grounds . |
| 24 | The Collector of Taxes in Glasgow in 1831 was one Blair , and the Loyal Reformers ' Gazette , a radical publication of the time , has a letter addressed to him in the following terms : |
| 25 | In a letter addressed to him in 476 or 477 , Sidonius talks of Euric restraining weapons with laws . |
| 26 | She riffled quickly through the pile and saw nothing of interest but an envelope addressed to her in a bold black hand that looked dimly familiar . |
| 27 | As she went to answer she noticed a white envelope addressed to her in Luke 's handwriting lying on the doormat . |
| 28 | On the premise that ‘ too many cooks spoil the broth ’ , he asks us to reiterate that day to day management of the Village is in the hands of the Warden , Mrs. Pat Holmes , and any guidance , questions or advice on such matters should be addressed to her in the first instance . |
| 29 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 30 | The letter , I mean , addressed to you in Greek . ’ |