Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , at the same time , the wording of the administration of the bread and wine , which referred to them as the ‘ body and blood ’ of Christ , implied the real presence so important in Luther 's theology . |
| 2 | His first feeling as he emerged from the short but deep sleep which came to him at the end of every restless night , was that he was bloody glad to be alive . |
| 3 | The emperor , however , was not inclined to intervene for his own amusement , but to take cases which came to him through the hierarchy of appeal . |
| 4 | Thus Aquinas , who stood in a long tradition which came to him through the teachings of the early canonists summed up in Gratian 's Decretum ( 1140 ) , was clear that every state had both the right and the duty to defend itself , its legitimate existence , and its rights when these could be legally proved ( ‘ It is legitimate to oppose force with force ’ , as Justinian 's Digest put it ) . |
| 5 | The tiny movements of the wherry and the gentle , muted river sounds which came to him through the warm night air gave him no relief . |
| 6 | He , too , suffered from an occasional enlightening vision which came to him from the dim past and which he must have suppressed at the time … |
| 7 | It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment . |
| 8 | Picasso 's grand-daughter , Marina , is selling forty-eight of his works which came to her in the share-out among the family of his estate , and which are normally kept at the Geneva freeport warehouse . |
| 9 | This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career . |
| 10 | The magazine Der Spiegel recently published the results of an opinion poll revealing that 14 per cent of Germans still think Jews were partly to blame for what happened to them in the second world war , 36 per cent believe Jews ‘ have too much influence ’ , and more than 50 per cent believe it is time for Germany to forget the past and move on . |
| 11 | ‘ Do you know what happened to him during the reign of the Great Criminal ? ’ |
| 12 | Yesterday a Teesside Crown Court jury was told by James Spencer QC , prosecuting : ‘ That lady survives today but she is permanently brain damaged and disabled and she is unable to say what happened to her on the morning on Wednesday , August 29 , 1990 . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We are at the bedside of the girl and are now starting to piece together what happened to her in the six hours she was in the hands of this maniac . |
| 14 | And it was girls in school then that s s you know when you started talking about , Ooh what happened to me on the beach and that . |
| 15 | I can answer that by telling you what happened to me during the Tencel plant opening at Mobile in December . |
| 16 | ‘ Maybe that 's what happened to you in the engine room . |
| 17 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |