Example sentences of "[noun] that surround him " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was there on a Kodak sponsorship to cover a gruelling four-day Super Marathon through the Hoggar Mountains in Algeria , but he found himself constantly distracted by the staggering terrain that surrounded him . |
| 2 | Ruth kept her distance from him but she could do nothing about the wretched aura that surrounded him . |
| 3 | Gatsby seems alive like the glittering social circle that surrounds him , whereas Clegg is , emotionally , as dead as his butterfly collection . |
| 4 | The young eagle trembled with fear , and then shivered with cold and loneliness as he looked at the cage that surrounded him , and above to where the bars and wire mesh stood out harshly against the lowering sky . |
| 5 | We sat down then and all the time he was eating Frankie could n't keep his eyes off her or the things that surrounded him . |
| 6 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 7 | Loathing the expressionism and abstractions that surround him during his time at Newcastle , where he studied in the late Sixties , he believes ‘ you have to pick up the traces . |
| 8 | He was kneeling by a pool , looking up at the towering trees that surrounded him — quiet , intent , somehow unsurprised . |
| 9 | If there ever was a body , Henry Hippisley took the secret to his grave — oblivious of the rumour and revilement that surrounded him in his final years — and fortunately for him , died of natural causes . |
| 10 | But it did feel peaceful , as though , even shielded against him , she could feel the aura of happiness that surrounded him … . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | In the crowd that surrounded him was a man called Jairus , who was the president of one of the local synagogues . |
| 13 | He remains quiet within himself , but he is difficult to overcome , because of the circular energy that surrounds him . |