Example sentences of "of [noun] that [verb] him [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 2 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 3 | The case of ice that weighed him down was his best suit . |
| 4 | The sort of job that pleased him most , this one . |
| 5 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 6 | Yet his Concertino of 1920 is a work of historic importance for the clear way in which it marks the connection between his early Russian style and the kind of neoclassicism that occupied him thereafter . |
| 7 | They sent him to proper schools — the first royal child not to have been educated by private tutors — but he was never just another pupil ; he was never allowed to forget the accident of birth that set him apart . |
| 8 | He worked hard as a stevedore on Sharpness docks , but it was still the thrills of life that kept him really alive . |
| 9 | I think it must have been Tom 's fear from the past , knowing what happened to black people who stepped out of line that made him so afraid to stick up for himself and stand his ground . |
| 10 | Yet that sort of worry is the kind of thing that makes him so exciting . ’ |
| 11 | That that 's the kind of thing that starts him off ( starts him off ) . |
| 12 | The strange fragrance was stronger now , coming over the top of the rise in a wave of scent that struck him powerfully — as the scent of orange-blossom in the Mediterranean strikes a traveller who smells it for the first time . |