Example sentences of "[noun] that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosen eked out a conversation with her and without Leon Kennedy , who was sewn into an isolation that made him more powerfully present . |
| 2 | It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 . |
| 3 | It was not Manvell 's displeasure that worried him , but Jane 's anger . |
| 4 | He felt subtly in touch with higher forces , as though he had become the Tarot card that represented him . |
| 5 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
| 6 | To illustrate this , let us imagine Heinrich Hertz , in 1888 , performing the electrical experiment that enabled him to produce and detect radio waves for the first time . |
| 7 | He concentrated on drawing cartoons and in 1932 had his first acceptance from Punch , the beginning of a partnership that established him as a major comic artist and one of the most original talents in the long history of the magazine . |
| 8 | This makes me wonder if it is the creative thought that guides the discoverer or whether it is the emotion that is the creative force that impels him to the solution . |
| 9 | The fourth series ( starting on Wednesday , BBC1 , 4.35pm ) covers plenty of ground quizzing people about relationships , models about their looks and one teenager with an obsession that led him to wash his hands until they bled . |
| 10 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
| 11 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 12 | He seemed to me to be at the mercy of waves that tossed him back and forth between then and now : the real-and-actual and the desired . |
| 13 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 14 | But that apprehension was not physical cowardice , rather the fear of defeat and subsequent demotion from big-money fighter to poorly-paid has-been that drove him on . |
| 15 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
| 16 | It was this casualness that led him , as Edmund Wilson reported , to be humorous in private about his own reputation , and " offhand and vague " about matters he had once taken seriously . |
| 17 | Under a massive front-page headline , HUNT FOR DRACULA FIEND ( Star ) , the report indicated that a 13-year-old was able to tell detectives that her attacker ‘ had short dark hair streaked with grey and deep-set eyes that made him ‘ look a bit like Dracula ’ ' . |
| 18 | He 'd gone with one once , after a party , back to a flat with a friend of Dave 's , who 'd laughed at him and had eyes that made him feel he was being drawn into something he could n't stop , and when she shed her clothes and left them discarded on the floor he 'd stared , open-mouthed , aware of the noise inside his head , something to do with what he 'd drunk , he could still hear the music , and was aware too of the smell of some cologne that merged with hairspray and covered something that he did not want to know about , the dirt and dust of the room and the female odours that half-attracted and repelled him . |
| 19 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 20 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 21 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 22 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 23 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
| 24 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 25 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
| 26 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
| 27 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
| 28 | Next week the feet that danced on canvas will stamp on pedals in the Lombard RAC Rally , but even the loudest engine roar can not drown out the fear that haunts him . |
| 29 | Jack grunted , conscious only of the icy fear that gripped him . |
| 30 | All things considered , de Gaulle was probably not as certain of communist intentions as he suggested in his memoirs , and it was probably the very uncertainty that worried him . |