Example sentences of "a [noun] that [verb] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 2 | Still , it was only a hare that had hurt him . |
| 3 | He determined the fossils that were the key to the rock succession in the Southern Uplands , was for many years palaeontologist to the Scottish branch of the Geological Survey , and late in life wrote an important memoir on Carboniferous crustacea , a group that had fascinated him since he had searched rock pools for crabs with his father . |
| 4 | Tanaka 's latest works are the culmination of a process that has brought him from the flat and serial minimalism of lines of white cement blocks to such imposing works as ‘ Scenery comes vertical ’ , a bronze obelisk placed in front of a painting depicting the course of the Nile . |
| 5 | ‘ I want the bastard named , then I want to be part of a team that goes hunting him . ’ |
| 6 | He went straight to the practice putting green to cure a defect that has robbed him of a commanding lead . |
| 7 | So he went home and he out about two weeks got fed up , you know , like that man you know , doing nothing so he had a scooter that needed repairing he died as he repaired the scooter ! |
| 8 | And a performance that helped make him the Queen Mum 's favourite . |
| 9 | Planning , it seems , is not a matter that need concern him . |
| 10 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 11 | Hobnobbing in TV circles he may even get to meet Richard Briars and solve a mystery that 's plagued him for years : Those voice-overs he does for ads on the telly , he always sounds so out of breath . |
| 12 | She had n't simply evaded him ; she 'd evaded him each time with an ease that had left him looking like a fool . |
| 13 | He had spent time ‘ inside ’ himself , once , when an assignment that had taken him abroad had gone badly wrong . |
| 14 | Charlie 's scrimshaw was particularly beautiful , an art that had taken him years to perfect and of which he was extremely proud . |