Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [verb] [pron] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 You can even create subject profiles that guide you to the pages containing stories most relevant to yourself .
2 If we 'd just attacked they 'd have killed you immediately , so I thought it best to try and get you to a safer distance before anything happened . ’
3 Roman caught her before she could fall and carried her to the small settee .
4 At a push , you could use a disk editor , such as the one included with Norton Utilities , to recover files — just hunt down the file you want and copy it to a new file .
5 In June too , after an attempt to repel the rebels had failed , and the leaders of the royal force , Sir Humphrey Stafford and William Stafford , had been killed at Sevenoaks , the government had tried to placate the Kentishmen by arresting Crowmer and Say and sending them to the Tower , and when Cade 's men entered London in July , those two were among their earliest victims ( 16 , p.192 ) .
6 Burton was hurling himself on the course most likely to tempt and test him to the limit .
7 The fish were duly caught and placed one to a box , and taken to my friends home , to await their final packaging for the journey to England .
8 Her children have disappointed and saddened her to the point where she has made the decision to rule them out of future considerations surrounding the throne .
9 I 've received a letter and I do n't know whether to show it to the police .
10 GOLFBREAKS HOLIDAYS THAT SUIT YOU TO A TEE
11 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
12 Throughout the war , there were constant efforts to limit the devastation it was causing or to bring it to a halt altogether .
13 What they must do is relearn to choose and commit themselves to the consequences of their choice .
14 But it was not until I was at Cambridge , in the following year , that my mother noticed and took me to the family doctor .
15 He winked and waved her to a chair , then turned his attention back to the caller .
16 And adequate software must be made available to ensure G M B activists can put into practice what they 've been taught and use it to the labour movement 's advantage .
17 In the second account , Jesus told them to go and show themselves to the priests , and while they were on their way they discovered they were cured .
18 Jesus told the leper to go and show himself to the priest and make an offering for his healing .
19 Thus completed , he signed the form ‘ accepting and submitting himself to the statutes , rules , regulations and ordinances of McGill University and of the Faculty or Faculties in which I am registered , and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the university and I promise to observe the same . ’
20 But she over-reacted and dragged him to a south London police station .
21 We rededicate and commit ourselves to the highest standards in communication as we endeavour to work for a more just , viable and sustainable society now , and in the future .
22 And her white Reeboks screeched at the marble as she turned and led me to the waiting forms .
23 He suddenly swung her into his arms , his tortured breathing the only sound in the darkened barn , and instead of carrying her down the stairs he turned and lowered her to the soft hay that was spread thickly on the floor behind them .
24 He turned and shouted something to the mercer below .
25 It was one of those events which at a crucial stage in one 's development arrive to challenge and stretch one to the limit of one 's ability and beyond , so that thereafter one has new standards by which to judge oneself .
26 Rather than have him insinuate himself into the building later and perhaps annoy her neighbours , she capitulated and invited him to the flat .
27 A searcher becomes a believer when he chooses and commits himself to the consequences of his choice .
28 He sighed and lowered himself to the other end of the settee .
29 I nodded and followed me to the house .
30 Peter nodded and drew her to the rail of the river-walk to look over the side .
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