Example sentences of "to [pers pn] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On September 15th , William Joyce ( Director of Propaganda ) called together the principal Party speakers and delivered to them what amounted to a tirade against Jews and the attitude taken up by the Government on anti-Semitism . |
| 2 | the more you tell them , the more they left you know , even when you say to them what did you do at school ? , then what did you do ? , oh nothing much it was |
| 3 | which was in the middle of the road , but I phoned them and to be fair to them they responded very politely , very pleasantly , and dealt with it straight away , so erm |
| 4 | every time I got to them they had about twenty odd teachers there at the |
| 5 | A few remained among the vines , and to them we continued to take food . |
| 6 | They achieved this splendidly in the Scottish Cup semi-final and since Hearts allowed it to happen to them we had a memorably ghastly match . |
| 7 | And something appeared to them which seemed like tongues of fire . |
| 8 | There 's , there 's , there 's one one bloke had a erm speaking , a dog which spoke to them which gave them the |
| 9 | WZ966 , WZ967 and WZ968 had had several modifications done to them which included removing the gun turrets from the fuselage and fitting extra aerials . |
| 10 | But that night , he summoned the British and American ambassadors and after talking to them he appointed as prime minister his chief of staff , General Gholamreza Azhari , a mild-mannered man who was absolutely opposed to use force . |
| 11 | With his back to them he jabbed a finger to the floor . |
| 12 | You know to them he said it would n't be matter if there was nothing . |
| 13 | Nurses living opposite said Roberts shouted to them he had served 10 months ' jail for a burglary he did not commit . |
| 14 | To them he gave detailed care now as always : most had been with him for many years . |
| 15 | and John one in verse twelve it says but as many have received him , to them he gave the right , the authority , the , the power , to become children of God , even to those who believe on his name and this of course is what making our commitment to Christ is , it 's receiving him for ourselves , it 's plugging in , it 's saying yes I have n't got that power myself , I am not able to do it I need you to come and do it for me , I accept that you have that power , you have that authority , you have dealt with my sin and I receive it for me , we trust Christ to save us from sin and commit ourselves to his kingly ruling our lives , we are as the bible says then , born again , new creations , we are made alive in Christ , I give you one verse in Colossians and in chapter three , verse four it says when Christ who is our life is revelled , then you also no sorry verse , verse three , verse three , sorry for you have died and your life is hidden with Christ in God but you say that 's all very well that , that brings me into the place of becoming a follower of Jesus yes I 've accepted him , but what about all this pressures here , Christ I , I 'm willing to receive them and to make the centre of my life , I 've received that he died for me , but what about all those things that 's twisting and marring and distorting my life , that 's rubbing me , my life can be more , God wants it to be , well that 's the great thing when Jesus comes , he does n't just come and sit down and that 's all there is to it , but he comes in by the holy spirit and as Christ is the centre of our life so he , as we submit to him and to his authority as we become obedient to his word , doing what he tells us , what he says for us , then the power of his spirit in our life starts operating , God the holy spirit , cos that 's how we become Christians , we are born again of God spirit and God Christ was in us , not the man who walked here on Galilee , he is a man in glory , but he comes into your life and into my life by the holy spirit and he gives us new spiritual resources which help us to overcome those influences of evil that are pressing in on us and trying to , to , to , to distort our lives and depress it into its mould , those things that have spoiled our lives , he gives us spiritual power and spiritual resources over them . |
| 16 | To them he promised to pay some £276,000 , much of it by the recklessly optimistic date of February 1338 ; from them he gained promises of military aid whose fulfilment depended largely upon the payment . |
| 17 | According to them he did not kiss Jacob , but bit him on the neck ! |
| 18 | I suppose that to them she represented a fast , efficient approach to life that jarred with their more laid-back , aristocratic one . |
| 19 | If people were not to assume she was talking down to them she had to speed up her presentation and tone down her air of authority . |
| 20 | According to them she had been at school that day and came out with them at the usual time and , as far as they knew , had gone the usual way home . |
| 21 | When she came up to them she said : |
| 22 | To them she appeared patient , tolerant , loving . |
| 23 | But they 're all well I went and I said to them I 'd forgotten my essays , my room number , the lot ! |
| 24 | Ay , I I 've I 've said that to them I said well you might have , if I take to work you 'll certainly hear some they said tha well if that 's common usage words that 's what it has to be and words that we never use at all that are in dictionaries and nobody ever uses them , they want to know common ordinary speech words that we use . |
| 25 | And I said to them I said I watched a film last night called Savage Sea . |
| 26 | The paramedics turned up within ten minutes and as they turned up I passed out , so they applied the defibrillator to my chest and the next thing I knew from one minute to sitting talking to them I knew I was on the ground and they 'd brought me round . |
| 27 | So when I parked my car I said to them I forgot how much it was in there , twenty pounds in the hotel as you 're not a guest they give them in reception . |
| 28 | They seemed to be mostly line-and-wash with an occasional burst of colour , and even when I got close to them I found I had to concentrate to see what they were about . |
| 29 | To them it meant primarily the sweeping away of restrictions and prohibitions , on particular forms of trade , on the free choice of a profession or occupation , on the practice of minority forms of religion . |
| 30 | To them it represented infinite riches , well worth committing murder for . |