Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 3 | 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 ’ ' . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dark , almond eyes that pierced him with their beauty . |
| 6 | Trent was reassured by the absence of hate in the dark , watchful , Latin eyes that faced him . |
| 7 | There was a purposeful look now in her eyes that gave him pause . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She kept on his wavelength by talking about the subjects that pleased him most — and these frequently concentrated on the state of his behind . |
| 10 | John showed high intelligence in the subjects that interested him , such as geography , history and music , but would not bother with anything that bored him . |
| 11 | Understood the dreams and images that tormented him , the listless refusal of his shrouded days . |
| 12 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The words on his lips were the words that described him . |
| 16 | In comparison to his contemporaries in 1967 he had completed a lot more films than most ; the difference was that his were a succession of B-movies that paid him little . |
| 17 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 18 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 19 | Presumably it was both practical and political reasons that led him to the subject working party strategy . |
| 20 | VINNY Jones last night sensationally revealed the secrets that make him soccer 's hardest man . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If he was to rise above the constant lure of carnal lusts that distracted him daily , if he was to dedicate and devote his life to freeing his country from the monstrous rule of France , there could be no choice ! |
| 23 | Pickerage , with the cunning of adolescence , was finding expedients that kept him well out of Toby 's way . |
| 24 | How would he act if he knew that his career was to be made into fiction , to serve as an object lesson , and a name of opprobrium , to the generations that followed him ? |
| 25 | In addition , despite a disarmingly pleasant manner , Reagan was widely considered to harbour views that placed him outside the mainstream of American politics ; there was a possibility that he might tamper with social security or lead his country into war . |
| 26 | It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things . |
| 27 | But it was n't his deeds that made him a Christian , it was his trust in Jesus Christ . |
| 28 | Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go . |
| 29 | It was one thing for Jean-Claude to have had the experiences that made him uniquely suited to interpret Alain-Fournier 's novel ; it was quite another for those experiences to have laid the foundations for a creative , personal life . |
| 30 | He was not a superstitious man , but even he must have been encouraged by the good omens that visited him while on board the Potentate . |