Example sentences of "that [adv] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Henry David Thoreau 's ‘ The Dispersion of Seeds ’ , now published as ‘ Faith in a Seed ’ ( Island Press , 284 pages , $19.95 ) , was written in 1860 after many tramps through the Concord woods , where Thoreau caught the cold that eventually killed him . |
| 2 | Indeed , one of Paul 's first actions was to issue a bull denouncing the alienation of ecclesiastical property , and it was only the considerable diplomatic efforts of Pole that eventually persuaded him to exempt England from its provisions . |
| 3 | He went from her now , with that familiar slight limping stride that only made him more attractive . |
| 4 | John thinks Campbell is superb in rehearsal , leaping from his chair after a protracted silence to make a passionate speech about some aspect of the story that suddenly stirs him . |
| 5 | Something was happening amongst the youth movement that so admired him and he could n't quite put his finger on it . |
| 6 | He kept thinking of Lucky Lady Firelight and himself aboard , constraining that nervous power that so intrigued him . |
| 7 | She began by destroying the contents of the studio , slashing all his canvases , painted or not , then tracking the felon himself , and mounting an assault that literally brought him to his knees , in fear for his balls . |
| 8 | He does n't seem to have any friends , and that obviously makes him unhappy . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend made a point that obviously concerns him , and he did so lucidly . |
| 10 | Every time Dustin saw his name in block letters on the marquee of a movie house , he was assailed with thoughts of his own mortality , a subject that constantly obsessed him , especially as he had already seen into the abyss . |
| 11 | What was it about her that apparently attracted him ? |
| 12 | Claudia fought hard against her traitorous body that already acknowledged him as its master , trying to hold herself away from him . |
| 13 | Sleep suggestions are made to encourage the subject to sever the critical awareness that normally links him to the external environment ; ‘ reality testing ’ has to be set aside . |
| 14 | He saw a rather pretty woman , not very young , with an air of good breeding that somehow attracted him . |
| 15 | Ember moved with an ease that soon took him out of sight among the frost-clawed rocks and left her panting , furious with him but unable to catch up to say a single one of the angry remarks cartwheeling through her mind . |
| 16 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 17 | The Navy may have given him an air of commanding responsibility , but it was his year running the Queen 's Silver Jubilee Appeal in 1977 that finally made him his own man , and not his father 's son . |
| 18 | On the strength of this scanty victory ( 23,000 votes , i.e. 28 per cent of the total number cast ) this largely unknown candidate was now treated by the media as ‘ the front runner ’ and ‘ the man to beat ’ , allowing him to gather the momentum that finally brought him the Democratic nomination . |
| 19 | In the end it was the action of freezing Thom 's bank accounts that finally traced him . |
| 20 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 21 | Spenser is arguing from the specific perspective of a militant Protestant New English settler in Ireland and that hardly makes him a typical Elizabethan . |
| 22 | He reread Michelet 's L'amour et la femme , hoping for guidance , desperate to solve the burning problem that forever eluded him , the reality of being a woman . |
| 23 | Since the Trust was founded Hillary has spent much of his life touring around the world raising money , always with the same enthusiasm that once took him to the top of Everest . |
| 24 | He has come to terms with his fierce ambition and his temper , the demons that once gave him a fascination with the psychotherapy of Laing and Reich . |
| 25 | If so , it is difficult to know how he would have stood up to the long haul that still awaited him . |
| 26 | It was an expression that still gave him pleasure and he would have used it to describe his own limited grasp of the subject , but it would have been wasted on the sparrow-sized man across the big desk from him . |
| 27 | He hit one of the great five irons , too , at the last hole , a shot that still gives him one of those lovely shivers of success whenever he thinks about it . |
| 28 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 29 | ‘ You 've got to do something in the close season when there 's no jumping , ’ Elsworth joked , making light of a triumph that clearly thrilled him enormously . |
| 30 | It was a move that clearly suited him for the following season he was picked for the county squad . |