Example sentences of "[pron] to [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I to you dear children , because your sins have been forgiven on account of his name . |
| 2 | I to you dear children because you have known the father . |
| 3 | I to you young men because you are strong and the word of God lives in you and you have overcome the evil one . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Between 1925 and 1929 he devoted himself to his regenerative projects . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Now look at some even shorter-term actions you can take to lead you to your longer-term goals . |
| 12 | I 'll go away and leave you to your fevered dalliances . |
| 13 | Now I must leave you to your own devices for a while . |
| 14 | If not I 'll leave you to your own devices until you see sense . ’ |
| 15 | I 'm afraid I 'll have to leave you to your own devices for a while . ’ |
| 16 | The relation of BT itself to its earlier versions was more complicated . |
| 17 | The problem with critical doubt is that it is not doubtful enough : it does not subject itself to its own criteria . |
| 18 | It remains to be seen , however , whether the UDC model can effectively and efficiently adapt itself to its broader goals . |
| 19 | This guidance has been given very simply through your own voice which talks to you , admonishes , guides , cajoles , takes away your fears , explains and , with infinite care and tenderness , dedicates itself to your daily encounters with life . |
| 20 | The things to avoid are principally a sort of subterranean trembling that begins in the body and communicates itself to your vocal chords and even , on occasion , to the chair in which you are sitting , and those long swallows , which you never seem to do at any other time but now occur unstoppably at the wrong point of emphasis in the sentence . |
| 21 | Significantly , though Hegel himself was much interested in science , especially in astronomy , his own efforts in that direction were none too successful : physical reality tended to be uncomfortably unwilling to accommodate itself to his theoretical predictions . |
| 22 | But that is only how we perceive it , how it registers itself to our physical senses , and not how it really is . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm over the moon and I 'm going to give something to my two daughters and son and maybe take a trip to England to see my brother-in-law ’ , he said . |
| 24 | Dermot looked round briefly at Patsy and Ellie and then said something to his two brothers which made all three of them laugh . |
| 25 | But found it he did , and the Congress 's early visibility and successes owed something to his organizing talents and access to parliamentary and public opinion at home . |
| 26 | 10am : Three tapes sent to the BBC1 , one to its international relations unit , one to the corporation 's See Hear unit to be signed for the deaf , and one to World Service News . |
| 27 | It is a cardinal error , and one to which intellectual historians are especially prone , to suppose that people can only think in terms of one set of assumptions . |
| 28 | This stretch of frontier , at which part of Iraq 's original 1980 offensive was directed , was one to which both sides attached a good deal of importance . |
| 29 | ( 1 ) In all the circumstances is it more appropriate that a court of the country to which a child has been wrongfully removed or in which it is being wrongfully retained ( country B ) ’ — in this case one can say England — ‘ should reach decisions and make orders with a view to its welfare or is it more appropriate that this should be done by a court of the country from which it was removed or to which its return has been wrongfully prevented ( [ Australia ] ) ? ( 2 ) If , but only if , the answer to the first question is that the court of [ England ] is the more appropriate court , should that court give any consideration whatsoever to what further orders should be made other than for the immediate return of the child to [ Australia ] and for ensuring its welfare pending the resumption or assumption of jurisdiction by the courts of that country ? |
| 30 | How quickly had his attention turned from his vaunted concern over herself to his own interests ! |