Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since her inheritance , ten years ago , all her pleasures and hopes and excitements had come to her in such small parcels . |
| 3 | In less than one year certain people have received an increase more than has come to me in 11 years . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | In a letter addressed to him in 476 or 477 , Sidonius talks of Euric restraining weapons with laws . |
| 7 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 8 | The acceptance of such reasoning required Lord Hailsham to address anew the question of the mental element required for lack of consent in rape , since the nineteenth century judges upon whom he relied had never had the matter presented to them in these terms . |
| 9 | If the parties had not agreed on the naming of the appointing authority , or if the authority which |
| 10 | The fact that we call both our mother 's brother and father 's brother by the same term does not mean that we are unaware of the fact that we are related to them in different ways or that we can not express this difference by using such phrases as ‘ my uncle on my mother 's side ’ . |
| 11 | Each term is usually given together with terms which are related to it in one of a number of ways . |
| 12 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 13 | The links between what the medical profession had done to me in British patriarchy and the cruelties and outrages perpetuated by every patriarchy throughout the world were glaringly obvious . |
| 14 | The most primitive people , as we have seen , have a clear sense of what is owed to them in social and quasi-commercial transactions . |
| 15 | She did n't because the moment was not right ; she did not yet know that she could not plead from her position of privilege that she had suffered too — ‘ So you want to annex our wrongs as well , do you ? ’ he might well have answered to her in just bitterness . |
| 16 | The Estonian government at the beginning of August accused the central USSR authorities of attempting to rob the republic of the economic sovereignty granted to it in 1989 [ see pp. 36825 ; 37045 ] . |
| 17 | True , Edward 's failure on the expedition of 1359–60 ( when he had not been able to capture either Reims , where kings of France were crowned , or Paris , the capital ) meant that he had to forego the important territorial concessions made to him in 1359 , including Normandy and the Angevin lands in central-western France . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) A board must not consider an objection made to it in private . |
| 19 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by a person other than an individual natural person , substitute another employee or agent of the applicant for the employee or agent mentioned in section 11 or 26 of this Act . |
| 21 | That enhancement scheme is being prepared now and reference should be made to it in this document in respect of . |
| 22 | Beautiful though your age is , many though the intellects that adorn it , and ugly though my age is , cruel many of its leaders , I believe that the period from which I come is to be preferred to yours in this respect . |
| 23 | Alice would have liked to talk to her , for she felt drawn to her in some kind of kinship ; but Caroline did not feel this , it seemed . |
| 24 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 25 | He was drawn to it in some weirdly obsessive , almost dangerous way . |
| 26 | On a similar tack , Guttersnipe would be intrigued to discover whether Mr Wahlberg was responsible for any more than 20 per cent of the many sexual peccadilloes attributed to him in this column . |
| 27 | Wasim , though has been reprimanded by Lancashire for comments attributed to him in this book . |
| 28 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 29 | The deal clearly does not work both ways as we learned from the Squidgy tape ( a copy of which was handed to me in that very restaurant some weeks before its contents were published ) . |
| 30 | He had never asked her to marry him , he had never even said directly and seriously ‘ I love you ’ , he was not bound to her in any way explicitly . |