Example sentences of "thing that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive . |
| 3 | The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor . |
| 4 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 5 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 6 | ‘ His work is the only thing that sustains him , ’ Ketura said . |
| 7 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 8 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 9 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 10 | It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket . |
| 11 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 12 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 13 | ‘ Does it mean that everybody has some definite thing that moves him ? ’ |
| 14 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 15 | That that 's the kind of thing that starts him off ( starts him off ) . |
| 16 | Yet that sort of worry is the kind of thing that makes him so exciting . ’ |
| 17 | The thing that perturbed him slightly , though , was that most of the men she talked to were young rather than old . |
| 18 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |
| 19 | The thing that impressed him least , he says , was the weather . |
| 20 | The thing that interested him most , however , was the rope of the great alarm bell on the roof . |
| 21 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |