Example sentences of "[noun] that kept him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pickerage , with the cunning of adolescence , was finding expedients that kept him well out of Toby 's way . |
| 2 | Likeably laid-back and a philosophic kind of personality , Hastings currently has a crucial priority — recovery from back damage that kept him out of that Second Australian Test . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One can also add that St Paul , who plumbs the depths of desolation but also knows the heights of consolation and joy , provided Montini with a practical spirituality that kept him going throughout his long ‘ hidden life ’ in the Secretariat of State ( 1925–54 ) , his pastoral ministry in Milan ( 1955–63 ) and finally , his Petrine ministry . |
| 5 | Most of the people in Bonanza 's outfit had been aware that Mahoney was up to some kind of private business that kept him in the bucks more than whatever he earned from Bonanza . |
| 6 | it was only the stress of the job that kept him anything like upright at all . |
| 7 | He worked hard as a stevedore on Sharpness docks , but it was still the thrills of life that kept him really alive . |
| 8 | It was not a magical experience , enabling him to go without food for the rest of his flight , but it was a meal for the spirit that kept him nourished and firm in his intention until he reached Horeb the mountain of God ( 1 Kings 19:1–8 ) . |
| 9 | The won the tournament in 1959 , but was n't able to compete in 1960 due to a serious knee infection that kept him out of action for most of the first half of the season . |
| 10 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 11 | In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive . |
| 12 | The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor . |
| 13 | Crowds were to provide him with the project that kept him busy for decades , the writing of Crowds And Power . |
| 14 | He still does n't know the exact reason for the problem that kept him in care for a week — more tests are planned at the end of next month — and which has prevented him from going back to Stamford Bridge , where his coaching has transformed the fortunes of London 's Cinderella club . |
| 15 | It was Elizabeth 's courage and devotion that kept him alive until his own courage could take over . |
| 16 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 17 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 18 | It proved enough for a most handsome victory over decidedly off-colour Ontario and it was an enormous pity that Rod Snow , the dynamic Newfoundland no.8 , sustained a neck injury that kept him out of the final . |
| 19 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |