Example sentences of "of [art] [noun] that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 2 | He came across as a weak , indecisive leader wracked by doubt and in danger of drowning in the complexities of the problems that faced him . |
| 3 | He reiterated one of the problems that dogged him throughout life , which was fatigue ; for although he had on the whole a ‘ tough ’ constitution — at least he liked to think so — and tremendous will-power , he had driven himself very hard over the past twenty years . |
| 4 | He could hardly stand , he had to cling to one of the arms that helped him up . |
| 5 | Holly searched for the next opportunity to strike again at the administration of the camp that held him . |
| 6 | I might argue that a particular capitalist economist is so embedded in the political and economic structure of the society that employs him that he fails to represent adequately the challenge levelled by ‘ political economy ’ to the perspective he purveys , and thus fails to take into account multiple points of view . |
| 7 | Even if John 's own feelings were more idealistic than political , it was his feelings about South African treatment of the blacks that prevented him from going back . |
| 8 | Whenever he had leisure after that Paul worked on it ; but the Professor began to show a marked desire for his company , and took him with him to other houses where he would hear interesting talk of the kind that stimulated him . |
| 9 | He did n't say anything about ( well-documented ) insults Yeugh directed at the distinguished internationals for no apparent reason — like telling Eddie Gray ‘ if you were a racehorse you 'd have been shot years ago ’ in front of the team — or indeed any of the other eccentric behaviour of the man that got him fired . |
| 10 | Despite the piece of paper he was waving this week , committing nine of the 15 republics to keep on talking about the preservation of the union , he has lost the confidence of much of the Communist Party he leads and of the parliament that elected him president . |
| 11 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 12 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 13 | The first glimpse of Father Philip had made his heart turn and contract in him with the pain of the memories that tugged him back towards Aber , older memories than the bitterness and anger that had driven him away . |
| 14 | Members of the gang that kidnapped him are reported to have offered to tell where his remains are , in return for immunity from prosecution . |
| 15 | This can only be due to Coleridge 's awareness and heightened sensitivity at these moments , which cause him ponder on his very means of creation and that of the emotions that cause him to write , which are therefore in a positive sense creative forces . |
| 16 | All we had to do was to pay the expense of the helicopter that brought him in because at that time he was appearing at the Prince of Wales and it was a matter of him fitting his time in with his performances , you see ? |
| 17 | A moment of clarity touched him , and his eyes flickered open , and managed to focus on the roof of the vehicle that sped him westwards , towards the hospital . |
| 18 | Talking to Stan about fossil hunting makes you aware of the passion that drives him on . |
| 19 | That was one cause of the melancholy that dogged him . |
| 20 | it was only the stress of the job that kept him anything like upright at all . |
| 21 | The Nigerian-born flanker suffered such awful complications to the infected ankle that he considered legal action against one of the hospitals that treated him . |
| 22 | Trent shook himself free of the hands that held him and turned his back on the man . |
| 23 | In the former areas the chief executive is sustained in his perennial struggle for mastery with congress by his claim to represent the nation as a whole and by the provisions of the Constitution that designate him as Commander in Chief and give him special responsibilities in international relations . |
| 24 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 25 | Although he had defied her before , it had only been in words but now the thought that he had the choice of putting those words into action and so set a new pattern , and in doing so break one of the threads that tied him to her , caused his whole body to tremble and his voice to quiver as he said , ‘ Either you give me permission freely to go with Mick tomorrow or I go down now and put it to Martin . ’ |
| 26 | James was continuing to play cricket throughout this period having become a member of the Maple Club , and while his reputation as a player was growing it was his overall knowledge of the game that brought him most attention . |
| 27 | Isambard , putting the door to very softly behind him , was stabbed by yet another of the recollections that fronted him every way where Harry was . |
| 28 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 29 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 30 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |