Example sentences of "the [noun sg] that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Outside on the terrace , at the point from where Francis used to dive , and made the dive that killed him , I looked down into the moon-flecked pool . |
| 2 | There was something about the wizard that irked Him beyond measure . |
| 3 | It was the folds of the banner , lying thick and cold in the shelter below , that saved his life , but not his skull from the blow that deprived him of consciousness . |
| 4 | It was the smell that alerted him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Brando had lumps of ice put under the blanket that covered him , and consequently his shivering is frighteningly realistic . |
| 7 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 8 | Members of the gang that kidnapped him are reported to have offered to tell where his remains are , in return for immunity from prosecution . |
| 9 | Holly searched for the next opportunity to strike again at the administration of the camp that held him . |
| 10 | That was the wave that earned him respect in Hawaii . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They must be independent , not mention in the will you ca n't have a beneficiary who 's a witness , you ca n't have a husband or wife of a beneficiary as a witness either because not I 'm told very first clause there are n't , to get a duplicate made bungalow or something like that he might be missing out on the bungalow and the was The course leader at the time told me the story that saw him and he would n't tell me who it was I want my ten percent commission . |
| 13 | But it was the driver that made him halt abruptly . |
| 14 | Some of the smokers were aware of his campaign against passive smoking — the kind that gave him cancer in smoke-tarred clubs . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This was the part that troubled him , that he found difficult to understand . |
| 17 | With her tongue she tried to wash off the blood that covered him . |
| 18 | Watching him speak , and seeing the man he was , I realized the distress that allowed him to reveal his feelings to me . |
| 19 | It was Mr Nearn 's interest in the car that led him , in 1959 , to set up Caterham Car Sales and Coachworks with three friends . |
| 20 | Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now . |
| 21 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 22 | It was not the adultery that offended him , but the stupidity of Lord John Rossendale risking a duel with Sharpe . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ Tonight will be just fine , you know , ’ she reassured him , sensing the anxiety that consumed him . |
| 25 | To struggle was only to weaken himself ; he could not displace the weight or break the grip that held him down . |
| 26 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 27 | He realised that despite the money he would miss this place , the friendly faces , even the work that blinded him . |
| 28 | Charlotte had blamed Grant 's affair on the work that kept him all week in a rented London flat while she and her three small daughters lived in their Suffolk cottage . |
| 29 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 30 | 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 . |