Example sentences of "home to [pers pn] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What an extraordinary position has been reached in some Christian theology , such that it is thought , at least at a subconscious level , that somehow Christ and Mary are a pair , Christ male and representative of men , and Mary female and representative of women , was brought home to me by the following incident . |
| 2 | It sounded as though the reality of what they were doing had come home to her for the first time . |
| 3 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 4 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 5 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |