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Example sentences for "pass that"

  • These two also grew drunk and jeered at Skallagrim, asking him what atonement he would make for those ewes of Asmund's that he had stolen last Yule, and how it came to pass that he, a Baresark, had been overthrown of an unarmed man.

  • So it came to pass that he fell more and more sick, till at length he could not rise from his bed in the cave, but lay there all day and night, staring at the little light which pierced the gloom.

  • Thus it came to pass that when he saw Eric he called to him in a big voice: "Hearken, thou Eric.

  • Thus it came to pass that, except for some women, he was left almost alone with Swanhild.

  • It seemed good to me also, having diligently attained to all things from the beginning, to write to thee in order, most excellent Theophilus, 1:4.

  • But they understood not the word: and they were afraid to ask him.

  • And saying: Ye men, why do ye these things?

  • And when she hath found it, call together her friends and neighbours, saying: Rejoice with me, because I have found the groat which I had lost.

  • For we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

  • As he looked back at it, he could hardly say how it had come to pass that he had been driven out of the track that he had laid down for himself.

  • Thus it came to pass that, in spite of all that poor Ruby had said, she was conducted to the marriage-feast by Joe Mixet himself.

  • It had come to pass that the 'Morning Breakfast Table' had interested itself in the matter, having appealed for subscriptions after a manner not unusual with that paper.

  • And how had it come to pass that she in all her tenderness had rejected him when he had given her the chance of becoming his wife?

  • So it comes to pass that I set out quite alone.

  • Tou Tou has gone to school, and so it comes to pass that, in the late populous school-room, I sit alone.

  • And so it comes to pass that, half an hour later, I am crawling up with a sick heart to the box-seat, piteously calling on all around me to hold down my garments during my ascent.

  • And it comes to pass that, about the time of the sun-rising, Barbara goes.

  • And so, as the days go by, the short and silent days, it comes to pass that a sort of peace falls upon my soul; born of a slow yet deep assurance that with Barbara it is well.

  • As the memory-images denoted by words are weaker, fainter, and less clearly discriminated than the original sensations, it comes to pass that a number of similar ideas of memory receive a common name.

  • It may thus come to pass that a representation is entirely driven out of consciousness by two stronger ones, while it is impossible for this to happen to it from a single one, no matter how superior it be.

  • So it came to pass that within a few minutes I, who had been called insipid and was supposed to have no conversation, was chattering away softly and happily, making remarks about the things around me and asking all sorts of questions.

  • So it came to pass that we gauged one another pretty accurately and remained devoted friends.

  • So it came to pass that an unnatural pair continued to meet and mystify and misunderstand each other to the great content of the high gods and of one unimportant human philosopher who looked on.

  • So it came to pass that, after lunch, Doria came into my study and demanded the set of proofs.

  • But when the ship could not pass that way, the knight left it, and entered a smaller one that awaited him.

  • Now it came to pass that in time Danæ bore a son, so beautiful a babe that any but the King would have had pity on it.

  • So it came to pass that we took leave of that good friend the abbot, and went from Malmesbury in the train of Ina of Wessex.

  • And in his company it soon came to pass that I longed not at all for Penhurst, though at first it seemed to me that I should have little pleasure in life away from Sexberga.

  • So it came to pass that I went no more into the village that night, but slept by a fire that burnt where our own hearthstone had been, amid the ruins of my home.

  • So it came to pass that I had nought wherewith to blame myself in the days to come, and I taught myself to look on Sexberga as a pleasant friend only, though it was hard at first, to say the truth.

  • So it came to pass that he gave me a place among the thanes' sons of his own court and there I was well trained in all that would make me a good warrior.

  • The same is done with the ships which come from Bengala, as well as from all other parts from which it is necessary to pass that island (which is the island for cinnamon) in order to get to Goa.

  • Why must he be subject to three licentiates, each one of his own nation, and to have come to such a pass that a bandy-legged graybeard should order him?

  • They must believe this, by the way in which they get angry about it; for it comes to such a pass that they do not treat one another well, as we have just experienced.

  • It came to pass that "Urbis et orbis" was not a false boast.

  • But it came to pass that on one day a pirate vessel fell by accident into the hands of the governor's officers.

  • From this it had come to pass that, as they made their way about the world--to the cities which they established round the Mediterranean--they collected in their new homes great store of ornamental wealth.

  • And it came to pass that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child: and they called him by his father's name Zachary.

  • And running before, he climbed up into a sycamore tree, that he might see him: for he was to pass that way.

  • And it came to pass that in those days there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that the whole world should be enrolled.

  • And it came to pass that as he was in a certain place praying, when he ceased, one of his disciples said to him: Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

  • I know not," continues that father, "either how it comes to pass that I am thus withdrawn from and deprived of myself, or how I am afterwards brought back and restored to myself.

  • But how comes it to pass that, among so many bodies, it has that power over no more than one?

  • If on the contrary the skies are only immense spaces full of fluid bodies, like the air that surrounds us, how comes it to pass that so many solid bodies float in them without ever sinking or ever coming nearer one another?

  • But now, how comes it to pass that beings so unlike are so intimately united together in man?

  • Now it came to pass that in those days the people of Kiôto were sorely troubled by an evil spirit, which took up its abode near the Rashô gate.

  • So it came to pass that Ruiten, the chief priest of Miyô In, offered up prayers nightly for the Prince.

  • Now it came to pass that higher up the Delaware, at his stronghold of Tinnekonk, resided one Jan Printz, who styled himself Governor of New Sweden.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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