Example sentences of "[noun prp] that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 2 | He 's become better known as a zoologist , but has n't forgotten it was Swindon that offered him his first exhibition . |
| 3 | Not even Europe 's governing body knows exactly what happened in a Russian League game involving Dinamo Moscow that earned him such a heavy punishment . |
| 4 | DR WHO is dead , but it was not the Daleks that got him , it was his own sexism . |
| 5 | It was the Royal College for the Blind at Hereford that gave him new inspiration by teaching him how to sculpt . |
| 6 | This emphasis seems intended to correct earlier approaches to Lam that found him influenced by Matisse , Picasso , Breton , and Miró , an exotic Third World modernist satellite rather than a major creative force . |
| 7 | And it was only the brave pleading of hostage Barbara Brady that persuaded him to hand the ammunition over , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 8 | But there could be no begrudging the 1990 innings at Hove that put him in the Somerset record-books . |
| 9 | Whether it was the cash he was now heavy with or the challenge of out-running a Daimler that motivated him , he put his cab through its paces , proving it more mobile than its bulk would have suggested . |
| 10 | What is it about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that places him on an artistic par with Shakespeare or Rembrandt , a giant of his art ? |
| 11 | WHAT IS it about Frank Oz that leads him constantly to make so-so films with fabulous trailers ? |
| 12 | Nor was it only Norway that shunned him : the invading Germans could n't stand him either . |
| 13 | Now I 'm aware that many parents bring their children for baptism from reasons of superstition or custom or anything you like I 'm reminded of a certain tax gatherer who , inspired by sheer idle curiosity , climbed a tree curiosity maybe took him up the tree but it was the grace of God that brought him down . |
| 14 | Singleton has an astonishing three year deal with Columbia that gives him the freedom to make as many films as he can in that time . |
| 15 | There must have been something about Sir Paul that gave him confidence . |
| 16 | It was the verbal savagery of his pre-war outbursts in the streets of Shoreditch and Pimlico that made him a public danger for the only time in his life . |
| 17 | With Jackie it was a mixture of pride and the fear of being sent back to London that drove him on . |
| 18 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |