Example sentences of "[indef pn] that [verb] him " in BNC.

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1 But nothing that makes him public ; because that makes me public . ’
2 She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far .
3 ‘ Incidentally , when Inez went Matthew collected all her belongings together , everything that reminded him of her , and stored them in one of the attics ; nobody else was allowed to touch the stuff .
4 He particularly delights in riding near the front of the field so that he can watch the hounds at work — something that fascinates him .
5 Of course he 'd always been enchanted , but , before , it had been too deep in his mind to be fully felt ; he 'd only known there was something that kept him empty inside , stopped him from being a proper person .
6 He had felt that he was in the presence of something that wished him harm ; some malign , unseen enemy who wanted to scare him into leaving .
7 Suddenly he remembered something that made him jump .
8 Something that made him different ?
9 Looking at other people 's letters was not something that attracted him .
10 The Perm was soon taking pity on Charlie , as people tended to , and Charlie was asking him about the pressures of fame as if it were something that concerned him from day to day .
11 Er , ask a fellow to speak on something that interests him , and you 're sure to get a more interesting speech .
12 You have to remember only that from each such encounter he must , to make the story one of continuing progress and placate Thomas Ozro MacAdoo , take some new fact , something that leads him on , in most cases , to another confrontation — and take us , the readers , with him .
13 Thus Akhsharumov directs the reader to something that makes him certain he holds a masterpiece in his hands before he has read half a dozen pages : a single pre-natal life , a foetal stirring and growth , no ordinary robust narrative sense of something afoot .
14 It is the kind of judgement that Hunt had in generous portions , and something that makes him , even today , a capable judge of the more refined points of racing on television .
15 ‘ But there is nothing intrinsically wrong with Diana 's chart , whereas I can look at Charles 's chart and say I think there is something that prevents him from making the throne .
16 I was the one that took him from her and it was n't a good scene .
17 He could n't seem to settle on one that suited him .
18 Much as poetry was becoming a part of him , his most natural form of self-expression , and the one that reached him first , was music ; side-by-side they were to advance with him throughout his developing days and early professional life .
19 In the early 1950s the Shah endured his greatest test , one that committed him much more strongly to the United States .
20 The first and most important of these ( and the one that ties him most clearly to Hall et al. )
21 Mr Reagan was showered by shards of glass , including at least one that struck him in the face , but was unhurt .
22 The one that eluded him was that of the Association of Golf Writers which , asked to nominate who had done most for European golf , decided on the Walker Cup team that went to the United States and won the trophy there for the first time .
23 The question here , however , is one that occupied him and his colleagues for many years of sometimes acrimonious debate with mammalian psychologists : .
24 At that point he was attacked by twelve Bf109s , but evaded and got in a good burst at one that overshot him .
25 " I 'm the one that loves him , after all .
26 The pope 's strongest card was the one that allowed him to raise money from the separate states and their princes — most of it not long-term income but exceptional grants .
27 His arm lay against his side like another body , his but not his , a throbbing strangeness grotesquely large , a companion to his every movement and one that gave him no peace .
28 ‘ Knowing him , I expect he wanted to get rid of anything that made him think of the separation from his family , ’ she said sympathetically .
29 ‘ I had too much respect for Yule Craig and would not have been part of anything that let him down .
30 He stood up and walked to the window of the cold , cold room , putting aside with contempt his lifelong habit of arranging to be seated so as to hide his size when he was about to say anything that interested him .
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