Sentence examples for had commanded her from inspiring English sources

But as Mr. Krakauer writes, Joseph Smith, the Mormon Church's founder, also took a 14-year-old girl as one of an estimated 40 wives, explaining to her that God had commanded her to become part of his harem.

And on a folktastic Saturday, after Laura Marling had commanded her audience with a preternatural serenity, Seasick Steve had them sharing his wine and serenading a young girl, before getting out his diddley bow (not a body part, but a one-stringed guitar).

As she was led through the halls of State Supreme Court in Manhattan to be arraigned, she contorted her neck and torso to hide her face from news cameras, trying to avoid the attention she had commanded for most of her life.

When Smith told Lucy that God had commanded him to take her as a plural wife she said, "my astonishment knew no bounds".

Kapitänleutnant Fritz Steinhoff, who had commanded U-511 during her rocket trials and was captured at sea when he surrendered, was subjected to an abusive interrogation at Portsmouth by the interviewers of U-546s crew.

They, moreover, had commanded previous expeditions.

And they went into the ark as God had commanded.

Petraeus had commanded peacekeeping units in Haiti and Bosnia.

And the Hezbollah leader had commanded many of them.

It did not say which country had commanded the jet.

By the time the story ends, they are hiding with their mother in the forest because Grandmother Crocodile has commanded all her river children to eat them on sight.