Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] that [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he oh that 's , that 's a free life for them , you punch it and it 's the ghost that kills him , you ca n't get away from the ghost . |
| 2 | Next week the feet that danced on canvas will stamp on pedals in the Lombard RAC Rally , but even the loudest engine roar can not drown out the fear that haunts him . |
| 3 | He 's had one of his rare vivid nightmares ; the sort that has him lying rigid in bed , blind eyes wide open , yelling ‘ No ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters . |
| 6 | However , he begins , after a fashion that is less rare with him than is commonly supposed , by apologizing for the impressionism that supplies him with the terms he needs : |
| 7 | Talking to Stan about fossil hunting makes you aware of the passion that drives him on . |
| 8 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 9 | This is the profound hope and certainty , that there are ways for every type of intellect and it is necessary only for each one to find the method that suits him . |
| 10 | as if it was n't bad enough there was there was there 's the cock crowing in the background , and in column two we have the picture of Peter er smiling and confident , welcoming just like the Spirit that imbues him really . |
| 11 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | From our three-dimensional vantage the curvature that eludes him is obvious . |
| 14 | I will give him sharp orders , he thought , and bring him up on a short rein ; and I will see him come to terms , and kiss the hand that curbs him . |
| 15 | If Morrissey mocks the hand that feeds him , let he himself be mocked by the words that serenade him : ‘ This is the last song that I 'll ever sing — well I 've changed my mind again . |
| 16 | It 's not the severity that worries him but his inability to universalize the verdict and therefore take it to himself as he can take ‘ Vous l'avez voulu , Georges Dandin , ’ the thing of Molière 's Dostoevsky liked to quote . |
| 17 | So dressed and fed , he bites with sarcasm and slashes with ridicule the class that despises him . ’ |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 20 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 21 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 22 | But this means to say that he has no rule that takes him one way rather than another in a new case . |
| 23 | He hits his irons particularly sweetly , a talent that serves him well at Hayling , Hampshire 's only links , where still days are few and far between . |
| 24 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
| 25 | " It is not a job that brings him into the public eye , but , believe me , he is one of the most trusted officers of the bank . " |
| 26 | He once described himself as the ‘ grandfather ’ of that generation of Tories that includes Michael Forsyth and Michael Fallon , a phrase that embarrasses him now . |
| 27 | I must live a life that pleases him . |
| 28 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 29 | His will to win has become a compulsive passion , a virtue that makes him a figure of loathing in the eyes of opposition fans . |
| 30 | In savannah trees , the male advertises the nest and pursues a female that approaches him , bringing her back to the nest after a chase . |