Example sentences of "[noun] that take him " in BNC.
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| 1 | But this means to say that he has no rule that takes him one way rather than another in a new case . |
| 2 | Le Tissier went on a run that took him ghosting past two defenders only for Baker to save . |
| 3 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 4 | Sir Edmund Hillary has spent much of his life , and a great deal of the determination that took him to the top of Everest , raising funds to help the Sherpa People of the Nepalese Himalaya . |
| 5 | He started in plastics , working from Coventry and Spondon , and joined Courtaulds Central Trading in the mid-1970s — a move that took him to East Germany , Yugoslavia and eventually the whole of Eastern Europe . |
| 6 | In a career that took him to Genoa where he played for the local side Sampdoria , he assumed an almost Italianate sense of style . |
| 7 | Occasionally , such a player realises this and finds he has the nerve to win the tournament , just as he had the nerve to win the tournament that took him to Augusta in the first place . |
| 8 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 9 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 10 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 11 | Either way it was the inspiration for the academic success that took him faster and further from the streets of his childhood than even his mother 's success in business had . |
| 12 | It was a last-minute dash that took him five and a half hours to reach Heathrow Airport . |
| 13 | ‘ Where he fell — they were all body shots that took him . ’ |
| 14 | A keen diver and photographer , he runs a marine consultancy part time that takes him to many of the world 's most interesting coral reefs . |
| 15 | It may have been this connection that took him to Nottinghamshire in 1580 , to work for Arundell 's brother-in-law , Sir Francis Willoughby , at Wollaton Hall . |