Example sentences of "which [verb] to [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 These may in turn be sub-divided ; goods possessed may comprise either the results of private purchase or goods allocated by the state , while goods not possessed tend to fall into two categories : first , those we encounter as material forms , in particular the built environment , the goods of our acquaintances or those in the high street shop , and secondly , goods we do not experience directly , but which appear to us through the media — for example in television , magazines and advertising .
2 This seemed like a Falangist revival , for it was the first session that had been held since 1945 and Franco asserted that it was " necessary that the National Council should recover the role which corresponds to it in the political tasks , because it is hierarchically the highest body in the Movement , whose duty it is to ensure the purity of the organization and the continuity of the doctrine " .18 But many of those present , including the Vice-Secretary of FET , Diego Salas Pombo , detected behind the smokescreen of verbiage a lack of genuine commitment to Arrese 's plan for a Falange-dominated future .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
8 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 …
9 It was an insight which came to her on the spur of the moment .
10 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 .
11 This was the start of the parrot legend which stuck to me for the rest of my career .
12 Not exactly impressing with all the chances which comes to you in the english league ’ frank says .
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