Example sentences of "that he [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was engulfed once more in an indescribable peace , and knew again , as he had known at dawn on the outskirts of Zweeloo , that he belonged to life , that the primal desire of man is to come into being , to achieve this peace . |
| 2 | Not that he seemed to mind in the slightest , she acknowledged wryly , forced to bite her lips in silence every time the actress materialised apparently from nowhere to spirit Dane away . |
| 3 | Gregory says he was the son of a slave and that he came to prominence in the household of king Charibert , whence he was promoted to being comes of Tours . |
| 4 | That is , that he came to Earth to save mankind from the wrong in the world , which separates us from God . |
| 5 | But all the indirect evidence , including the records of his reading in such writers on generation as Erasmus Darwin , Johannes Müller and Giorgio Gallesio , makes it most probable that he came to pangenesis in such a revision of his 1838 position , and that he did so in the years 1840–1 . |
| 6 | It was about this time that he started to court Sylvestre , and in the year 1583 she agreed to marry him . |
| 7 | Credit for forcing a decision on this issue goes to Rudi Fuchs , director of the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague , who caused a fierce public discussion when he announced that he wanted to deaccession two Picassos in his collection in order to create a fund with which he could supplement his annual acquisitions budget and concentrate more on collecting contemporary art ( see The Art Newspaper , No. 14 , January 1992 , p. 3 ) . |
| 8 | But it was not until August 1942 , after a year 's delay , that he set to work on the poem again . |
| 9 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 10 | It used to be thought that , when Offa was styled on occasion in the charters of the period rex Anglorum , this signified that he aspired to lordship over all the Anglo-Saxons or at least to make himself the only king south of the Humber . |