Example sentences of "[vb pp] to [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 2 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 3 | And you 're committed to nothing by replying . |
| 4 | It is a power committed to them by the judges , a power which the judges may resume . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding these advantages and the expenditure of close to $13m mainly on television advertising , Connally won no primaries and had only one delegate committed to him at the convention . |
| 6 | David showed prudence in doing the things committed to him by Saul ; Job exemplified simplicity ( in the good sense ) for it was said of him that he was a simple man ; Solomon , in Proverbs , highlighted patience , where he said that a prince is made mellow by patience . |
| 7 | We sense that beneath the linguistic competence which he displays in the play 's early scenes , he is not actually committed to anything beyond language itself , apart from football . |
| 8 | As a public-trust authority with central government funds committed to it through the Harbour Act , it needed a private bill to get its constitution altered . |
| 9 | But that we become committed to it as the way to save the country and the peace appears to me full of dangers . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If one wants to deliver a caring service one will deliver a better caring service if one manages it efficiently and uses the resources committed to it by the taxpayer to the maximum possible extent . |
| 12 | However , as the pope himself had been so committed to it before his election , such an outcome was unthinkable . |
| 13 | However historically authentic ( or not ) this account may be , what is clear is that Hungarians adhered to it for a thousand years after their arrival in the Danubian plain at the beginning of the tenth century . |
| 14 | Candidates must now set up personal machines manned by workers attracted to them by their individual qualities and stands on the issues with little or no reference to party loyalty . |
| 15 | It was n't as if she was attracted to him as an individual . |
| 16 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 17 | What mystifies me is that any woman could be attracted to you at all . |
| 18 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 19 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 20 | ‘ In that case , it must be possible to be violently attracted to someone on sight . |
| 21 | Staff are not allowed to anticipate paid leave beyond what has accrued to them at the rate shown on the annual leave slip at the time of going on leave . |
| 22 | Hence partners must inform the other partners of all personal profits which have accrued to them by virtue of their being partners . |
| 23 | He said , ‘ Sickness has given me this fortune that this sultan has come to my side , at morn so health and well being have accrued to me from the arrival of this King without retinue . |
| 24 | Standard English today differs from local dialects not only in permitting the expression of complex relationships in familiar written forms , but also in the astonishing wealth of vocabulary which has accrued to it through its intellectual and imperial history . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And therefore he is forbidden to you by every rule , natural or manmade . |
| 27 | A special classification has been placed on it and access forbidden to anyone except the Chief Constable and a small number of his most senior officers . |
| 28 | The Census of 1981 revealed that this figure had dropped to one in five residents in Wales . |
| 29 | 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 ? |
| 30 | Something in her had responded to him from the first moment they 'd met . |