Example sentences of "that [noun pl] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow he had learned that tantrums enabled him to avoid work . |
| 2 | Wheeler 's speech contained so many errors of fact and so many suppositions of value which he did not share , that words failed him . |
| 3 | The negative claim insists that a judge may not appeal to the law 's warrant for his decision when he can not show that conventions force him to do what he does , because the ideal is corrupted by any suggestion that past political decisions can yield rights and duties other than those dictated by convention . |
| 4 | Perhaps four or five minutes , though it certainly seemed more ; Moxie guessed ten minutes , and Gildas later told her that Ludens told him fifteen minutes . |
| 5 | He tearfully said he only wanted to give the innocent insurance agent a ‘ headache ’ and wept so much in court that police branded him the ‘ cry-baby killer ’ . |