Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | Another episode that gave him much reassurance was the time when Kate invited him in for tea at the Rectory . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He fought four times for his seat on Southampton council before winning it : a result that encouraged him to move into national politics . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 ’ ' . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
18 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
19 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | BILLY JOEL is battling to save the tiny New York club that gave him his first pop break . |
22 | Although — it had to be said , in all fairness — the Colonel had made it clear that it was Elisabeth 's mind that attracted him . |
23 | It must be his over-sensitive suspicious mind that made him see a relieved relaxing of those muscled shoulders . |
24 | The shame of it may have caused the slight stroke that overtook him , or perhaps it preceded the disaster . |
25 | Jack grunted , conscious only of the icy fear that gripped him . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | Davis 's struggle to overcome the racial prejudice that held him back was backed by Sinatra . |
28 | He did not know why he asked the question , except as part of a ritual that reassured him Blanche had not changed . |
29 | Half an hour later , walking slowly along the road into Haslemere through the mild grey morning , Harry described in his mind another circuit of all the barely linked half-chances that persuaded him Cunningham was right and concluded , not for the first time , that logic and probability were irrelevant . |
30 | She kept on his wavelength by talking about the subjects that pleased him most — and these frequently concentrated on the state of his behind . |