Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 2 | ‘ The right hook that finished him was the best body punch I 've ever thrown ’ said Damien with the air of a winner . |
| 3 | His enthusiastic and entrepreneurial promotion of these studies , however , was combined with a political naïvety that blinded him to the problems that can arise from reliance on external sources of funding in politically charged fields of study . |
| 4 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 5 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 6 | It was this condition that brought him close to his parishioners . |
| 7 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 8 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 9 | On leaving school he went as a labourer to Hunts Farm ( visible from the 6th green ) and it was this work that brought him to the course . |
| 10 | Gatsby seems alive like the glittering social circle that surrounds him , whereas Clegg is , emotionally , as dead as his butterfly collection . |
| 11 | It might seem a bit bleak , a bit inhuman ( ‘ antihumanist , yes ; inhuman , no , ’ she would interject ) , somewhat deterministic ( ‘ not at all ; the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him . |
| 12 | Answer number two turns on another price that bothers him . |
| 13 | He had seen things this night that touched him deeply . |
| 14 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 15 | Perhaps it was n't a deliberate attack at all , just a further slip that struck him and swept him across the path . |
| 16 | Mr Sullivan says it was this incident that prompted him to stage the break in . |
| 17 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 18 | Electronic man attending to the high singing voices from another star that compliment him , soothe him , accept his duty . |
| 19 | For his part , Lawson needed little encouragement to accept the exciting challenge that confronted him . |
| 20 | For some reason that worried him . |
| 21 | For some reason that angered him . |
| 22 | singled out by the Decree of an Inscrutable Providence from the midst of the Distinguished Multitude that Surrounded him , in the full pride of his Talents and the Perfection of his Usefulness , met with the Accident that Occasioned his Death ; which deprived England of an Illustrious Statesman and Liverpool of its Most Honoured Representative ; which changed a moment of the Noblest Exultation and Triumph that Science and Genius had ever achieved into one of Desolation and Mourning , and striking Terror into the Hearts of Assembled Thousands brought home into every Bosom the Forgotten Truth that ‘ In the Midst of Life we are in Death ’ . |
| 23 | Murphy has recaptured the old form that earned him two honours with the Ulster senior team , winning one inter-provincial championship at Lahinch , in 1986 . |
| 24 | He had a sense of humour about him and , I suppose , a kind of lesser quirkiness that made him very natural in the part . |
| 25 | Professor Hoskins saw little in the modern development of the English landscape that filled him with pleasure and one has great sympathy for his feelings . |
| 26 | But nothing much has happened this year that suggests he is about to start firing . |
| 27 | His privilege and independence might further be seen to confer the trappings of a ‘ humaneness ’ which in truth was only a benign counterpart of the more brutal colonialism that appalled him . |
| 28 | Moreover , the observer at A forms a picture of the white hole on the basis of all the light rays that reach him at the same time . |
| 29 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |
| 30 | But Lewis 's fiction Till We Have Faces ( 1956 ) is the outcome of a private dream that haunted him for decades , based on the ancient myth of Cupid and Psyche , though it outpaces at times his capacity to tell . |