Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] to he " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he was also imbued with papal influences that came to him no doubt from his Roman and " papal " background , from Pope Gregory VII and from St Bernard in his tremendously important address to Eugenius III . |
| 2 | It explained the shape of the mystical experience that came to him in prayer . |
| 3 | But it was the show business aspect of the trials that appealed to him . |
| 4 | The honours that came to him were richly deserved . |
| 5 | Erm , and that er what causes erm David Lewis to tell the sorts of stories about he tells is this kind of hideous accident that happened to him when he was three years old and then was exaggerated by his |
| 6 | He could n't believe that those nobs in the West End were willing to pay good money for things that seemed to him to be nothing more than unnecessary luxuries . |
| 7 | In May 1975 , at Wembley , the site of Haffey 's worst nightmare , Scotland entrusted the role of goalkeeper to Stewart Kennedy , a keeper of such startling mediocrity that many Scotland fans believed it was only his association with Rangers that led to him being chosen . |
| 8 | Self-contained was the phrase that occurred to him ; everything was there to hand . |
| 9 | To the extent that the schoolboy is less than certain of the answers that occur to him , can we allow that he still believes them ? |
| 10 | Imperial College had a style that appealed to him . |
| 11 | It may not have been the plane journey that got to him , of course . |
| 12 | A bleak thought that occurred to him one night , crossing the Hungerford Bridge on the way back from a check of Cardboard City . |
| 13 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 14 | ‘ People coming and going ’ were to provide Bischof 's subject matter in the eight years of life that remained to him after his meeting with Rosellina ; people in camps , people displaced by the Second World War and then by the regional wars that succeeded it , from Eastern Europe to Indochina , and from Scandinavia to Japan . |
| 15 | that 's the last major thing that happens to him . |
| 16 | Which was probably the best thing that happened to him . |
| 17 | The best thing that happened to him was when he married in Australia at the age of 21 . |
| 18 | Although , like us , he 'd had no news , either from the guards or television or magazines , he somehow felt he had a lot of information that came to him through the ether . |
| 19 | Maybe it was the pressure that got to him — who knows ? |
| 20 | One , with curling chestnut hair , was five foot ten , and thin , and wore long-legged swimming shorts that clung to him like skin in jagged gold and emerald . |
| 21 | Now he wore only the bottom half of pyjamas , thin cotton ones that clung to him , revealing more than they concealed of his strong muscular body . |
| 22 | For a few brief moments he 'd been able to forget the room and the bizarre encampment and Hennessy at his elbow , and he 'd conversed in a language that came to him now almost as readily as his first ; he 'd conversed with a dark-eyed alien . |
| 23 | He also shows his usual willingness to exploit every leak that comes to him . |
| 24 | He won few friends , but he won the votes that mattered to him . |
| 25 | Perhaps it was because she was American , but all this supposition failed before the one fact that mattered to him : he had come to love her passionately , wanted to fulfil that love , and he did not know what to do about it ! |