Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [modal v] [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once through the narrows , and having explored and discounted tempting-looking passages that turned out to go nowhere — Bahia Inútil : one can almost sense Magellan growling with irritation as he named this immense body of water useless — the Captain-General entered the narrow waterway that would eventually take him into the neighbour-ocean . |
| 2 | Covering fire kept his head down as somewhere flankers began their move that would finally pin him down . |
| 3 | ‘ You knew how he could get if his acting was n't working out — it was about the only thing that could really bring him down . ’ |
| 4 | He needs it because I suspect he 's hooked on the secrecy and excitement that could easily make him run off again . ’ |
| 5 | My concern about the caravan site was only a kind of self-importance , and , as a result of my terrible selfishness poor Tom had been frightened in a way that might well scar him for much longer than that little stone . |
| 6 | The first Kenyan African novelist was a man of anger , developing the marxist position that would eventually bring him detention without trial for a year , followed by exile . |
| 7 | Syd also makes an appearance at the end of the ‘ Saucerful ’ CD on ‘ Jugband Blues ’ , a last gulp of creative oxygen before surrendering to the madness that would eventually engulf him . |