Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But this means to say that he has no rule that takes him one way rather than another in a new case . |
| 6 | But underneath all the tough-talking , cryptic statements and pipe-lighting that allows him time to carefully think out his replies , there is another Bill Morrison , a schoolboy at heart , who is happiest sitting in the stands at Lord 's or Twickenham swapping cricketing and rugby stories , who idolises sporting heroes like cricketers Denis Compton and Gary Sobers , four-minute miler Roger Bannister , and former rugby international Gerald Davies , and who is in a fever of excitement over the arrival of his new MG RV8 , a ‘ reincarnation of the old MGB ’ , only ‘ more powerful , more comfortable ( I hope ) and certainly more costly ’ . |
| 7 | He hits his irons particularly sweetly , a talent that serves him well at Hayling , Hampshire 's only links , where still days are few and far between . |
| 8 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 9 | It is sometimes a way of endowing a person with a responsibility that trains him to fulfil various roles in the future , or that it is hoped will change his character for the better , or that endows its holder with prestige , or that gives him a certain hold on other people and makes them more likely to act in his interests . |
| 10 | Because the males ' reproductive success is probably limited by the number of females they can attract and defend from other males rather than their sperm supply , natural selection will favour any property in a male that enables him to mate with more females . |
| 11 | He 's wearing a crisp white shirt that makes him look tanned . |
| 12 | What is more , de Man argues , metaphor overcomes the opposition between inner repose and outer action because Marcel 's imagination gives him access to the outside world ; of a kind that allows him to possess it " much more effectively than if he had actually been present in an outside world that he could then have only known by bits and pieces " ( 1979 : 60 ) . |
| 13 | And he oh that 's , that 's a free life for them , you punch it and it 's the ghost that kills him , you ca n't get away from the ghost . |
| 14 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 15 | So Madam I 'm asking you to say that these circumstances , this is the sort of case that should never have come before the court , it should 've been sorted out between the parties themselves , with the aid of their solicitors , and that it 's only the overreaction of the police in this particular circumstance that brings him before the court here . |
| 16 | His refuge for the hunger strike will be the Swindon pub that pays him to lecture to punters on Plato . |
| 17 | Resource-based learning can last as little as ten minutes : a child 's scrutiny of a repeating film-loop which teaches him a concept or skill he will need for the next part of his programme ; a short programmed exercise that enables him to test his grasp of an idea or piece of knowledge before embarking on a larger exercise ; a work-card unit giving practise in loading a projector or using a subject catalogue . |
| 18 | The French messenger Mountjoy , bringing an insult from the Dauphin , is met with a fierce defiance that leaves him , in this version , visibly shocked . |
| 19 | But — and it 's this sort of complication that makes him I think such a remarkable man — although that did happen then , for the next ten , twelve years , he was entirely preoccupied , almost entirely preoccupied with something else , and this something else erm originates from the other revolution that he underwent at this time , a revolution that occurred after a visit to an international mathematical congress in Paris , where he met the Italian mathematician Peano . |
| 20 | He 's had one of his rare vivid nightmares ; the sort that has him lying rigid in bed , blind eyes wide open , yelling ‘ No ! |
| 21 | Gatsby seems alive like the glittering social circle that surrounds him , whereas Clegg is , emotionally , as dead as his butterfly collection . |
| 22 | D. B. Sweeney plays Doug Dorsey , a working class lad whose bright future in the National Hockey League is ended by a playing accident that leaves him with permanent eye damage . |
| 23 | Their captain ( for so I must term him — though their forces understand no battle order and hurl themselves pell-mell on us like mere animals who must quench their parched throats with blood ) , a certain youth who is called Dulay to his people , with a trick of the eye that makes him seem to look at you and yet not see you ( and other tricks beside — I have seen this same swart creature climb a ladder into the air as if it were a tree planted there foursquare ) , we apprehended as he fled from our justice . |
| 24 | Lead/bass guitarist Jean-Herve Peron unstraps his double-necked guitar monster ( an apparatus that allows him to play both styles with minimum effort ) and holds up his hands in joy . |
| 25 | Doyle 's greyhound is a pair of electricians ' pipes , which he lights upon , paints and plays , producing a doleful sound that soothes him — it is like mumbling your mantra or telling your beads . |
| 26 | I , what I do n't , if Andrew obviously feels he 's got a strong process that suits him and I do n't want to knock that on the head . |
| 27 | " It is not a job that brings him into the public eye , but , believe me , he is one of the most trusted officers of the bank . " |
| 28 | However , when the first violin takes up the theme of the lullaby high up in its register , he plays with a pure sweetness that makes him sound like a luminous voice in the distance . |
| 29 | Bias may creep in through the wording of questions ( which may be ambiguous , unintelligible or suggestive of a particular answer ) , through the careless recording of answers , through the interviewer 's ( perhaps unwitting ) influence over response-patterns and through a general failure of the interviewer to establish the kind of rapport with the respondent that enables him or her to give truthful answers on personal matters . |
| 30 | I thought it was really very funny , this long straggly black hair , he looked absolutely miserable , he thought he was now spiritually calm and spiritually sane and he 's got this peculiar thing on his head that makes him look so daft . |