Example sentences of "[noun] that [vb base] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the screen of language the words that make him up are no more than some amongst many , a detail in the pattern , as a grotesque might be in early painting , or the straight man in a comic duo . |
| 2 | If Morrissey mocks the hand that feeds him , let he himself be mocked by the words that serenade him : ‘ This is the last song that I 'll ever sing — well I 've changed my mind again . |
| 3 | VINNY Jones last night sensationally revealed the secrets that make him soccer 's hardest man . |
| 4 | A therapist who undertakes the assessment of these patients should have sufficient factual knowledge about the problem of attempted suicide and should also have interviewing skills that allow him both to put patients it ease and obtain valid information . |
| 5 | Out of a crop of precocious back division talent to whom Scotland will looking in the not-too-distant future , Gregor Peter John Townsend , who will not be 19 until April 26 , presents an amalgam of skill , pace and learning capacity that mark him as one of specially exciting potential . |
| 6 | This can only be due to Coleridge 's awareness and heightened sensitivity at these moments , which cause him ponder on his very means of creation and that of the emotions that cause him to write , which are therefore in a positive sense creative forces . |
| 7 | A series of injuries slowed his progress but ultimately , it was attitude that cost him the chance of blossoming into a great player . |
| 8 | There are things in all our lives that displease him : misplaced ambition , wrong relationships , lack of prayerfulness , slackness in spiritual things , and so on . |
| 9 | He has been known to buy entire collections that please him , as he did some time ago with the modern Italian co-operative Memphis , or more recently with the furniture designer André Dubreuil . |
| 10 | The next point that upset him was that I said that unlike the American President , the Prime Minister was relieved of a great deal of official ceremonial by the Queen and Prince Philip . |
| 11 | It might seem a bit bleak , a bit inhuman ( ‘ antihumanist , yes ; inhuman , no , ’ she would interject ) , somewhat deterministic ( ‘ not at all ; the truly determined subject is he who is not aware of the discursive formations that determine him . |
| 12 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 13 | I know somebody here who got very good marks for his lab work and he 's good on computers , and he just programmed the computers in random errors and stuff that give him set results and nice graphs , and they were n't perfect so nobody noticed them , but he fiddled them , and that way he did n't have to do any lab work if he did n't want to . |
| 14 | Another approach which is complementary to this is to encourage the patient to examine the questions and assumptions that prevent him getting started on anything . |
| 15 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 16 | And the explanation , according to his interpretation of his experience of his world lies in the extra human agencies that surround him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Sugar have provided the right vehicle for Mould to tether his current world-view to , providing ( with Mould 's guitar and the tightness of the rhythm section ) a set of beautifully hard-knuckled rock arrangements that give him the clout he needs to reinforce the feeling inherent in his vocals . |
| 19 | ‘ I know the people that own him , ’ said Philip . |
| 20 | In the former areas the chief executive is sustained in his perennial struggle for mastery with congress by his claim to represent the nation as a whole and by the provisions of the Constitution that designate him as Commander in Chief and give him special responsibilities in international relations . |
| 21 | The perspective of the poem follows its language , tumbling suddenly into a burst of passion and emotion as the poet struggles to observe the forces that buffet him in the heart of his mind . |
| 22 | Instead , the finger of doom is pointing at Malcolm Crosby , a Wearside hero when he led Sunderland to the FA Cup final last season , but perilously close to getting his P45 if the players that love him let him down again today at Derby . |
| 23 | Yates is still struggling to recover from a serious knee operation that cost him his place as County were relegated and missed out on a lucrative ticket to the Premier League . |
| 24 | Labour must , once again , be the party that stands up for the individual against the vested interests that hold him or her back … |
| 25 | In one of those disarming quotes that make him both loathsome and likeable , he once said ‘ I 've been in more courts than Bjorn Borg . ’ |
| 26 | Yet it is not just his commitments with the Royal Ballet that hold him up , it is also his unusually intense way of making a work . |
| 27 | All this research is underpinned by a longstanding habit of collecting cuttings on issues that interest him : ‘ I 've got about half-a-dozen files on things like big hitting , underarm bowling , reverse sweeps and so on . |
| 28 | Electronic man attending to the high singing voices from another star that compliment him , soothe him , accept his duty . |
| 29 | Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son . |
| 30 | The dangerous journey in store for Sard is not in fact in pursuit of the ideal woman , but a prosaic attempt to get back to his ship before it sails , an attempt frustrated by the theft of his bicycle and by wanderings that involve him with a silver-train and a period in gaol , the traverse of an appalling desert and a rock-strewn mountain . |