Example sentences of "[adj] that [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan had felt the coming of spring before , a coming that overtook his spirit and made it busy and turbulent , but he had never witnessed it so well . |
| 2 | The result was last spring 's ‘ Sunburst ’ , a single that put his ‘ group ’ Tangerine ahead of the indie pack , though no one noticed ; it was not hardcore dance and the flip was superior , a bizarre Tommy James freak-out cover ‘ I Am A Tangerine ’ . |
| 3 | Carolingian influence on Wulfstan 's thought seems to have been marked , and doubtless increased his desire for a more peaceful society , but his aims and methods were so common that identifying his precise source on particular matters is difficult . |
| 4 | The prelude to this was set by another psychoanalyst called Otto Rank one of Freud 's er early followers who had published a book called the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and in this book what Rank did was to trawl through world folklore and literature , from myths of heroes , and of course there are a lot of those books , and dozens and dozens of them and what he does in the book is he distils all these dozens and dozens of myths and he finds that there 's a common pattern emerges and it 's , it 's pretty stereotypical actually and the common pattern is the hero is born of royal or divine parents , the hero for some reason or other that loses his parents or is cast out by them or is er exposed in some way , erm the hero is often threatened by some outside force and then rescued by er humble people . |
| 5 | It is doubtless true that following his realisation in 1934 that even in post-revolutionary Soviet society men and women were ultimately not liberated from the anguish and fear of individual death and obliteration , Nizan was forced to adopt a more modest , less euphoric tone when praising Soviet achievements . |