Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's so strong that nothing stops him , ’ commented his trainer , Lucy Wadham . |
| 2 | The distinction has to be noted ( because traditionally thinking in criminal law seems to regard it as important ) between a request by the patient that treatment be discontinued which is complied with and a request by the patient that someone stabs him to death which is complied with . |
| 3 | When the Queen of the Wilis commands Giselle to rise and dance him to his death , so strong is. her love that she helps him to dance until cockcrow when he will survive . |
| 4 | He probably needs to get lost so often so that his mother will find him and remember to tell him that she loves him . |
| 5 | In the Original Treatment it says : ‘ Natasha tells Lemmy that she loves him , but pronounces it as a child speaks its first words ’ |
| 6 | Believing his benefactor to be Miss Havisham , he nourishes a fantasy that she intends him to marry Estella , whom he continues to love passionately , ‘ against reason , against promise , against peace , against hope , against happiness , against all discouragement there could be ’ . |
| 7 | Can he pick up a tin of beans without feeling that it hates him ? |
| 8 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 9 | While this distinction is obviously important to Poulantzas , it is not immediately clear that it helps him to unite structures and class practices as he intends . |
| 10 | It is sometimes suggested that the absence of note-taking can be a help to the informant , in that it frees him from the inhibiting effects of a recorder and a notebook . |
| 11 | It will be aware of its master , in that it hears and smells him , and of its own exertions , in that it is awake , but it will not be aware that it recognises him , for this is of the order of tomorrow 's delayed return — a linguistic belief of which dumb brutes are incapable . |
| 12 | ‘ If he has not come round , we will put the TV on anyway and hope that it brings him out of it . |
| 13 | This dietician saying that the architect w wants to know all about endoscop what it involves , so that it gives him an idea as to what is about . |
| 14 | Lovelock sees this dual function as a vital bridge , but others argue that it puts him in an invidious and altogether too powerful position . |
| 15 | A consequence of Anderson 's greater interest in certain topics of conversation is that it leads him , on occasions , to create conversational confusion . |
| 16 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 17 | In the second play , Audience , Ferdinand is called in by the head maltster , played by Freddie Jones , who insists that he joins him for a drink and a chat . |
| 18 | He is engaged in conversation by McKendrick , another participant in the Colloquium , but does not reveal to him that what attracts him to the conference is the opportunity it affords him to go to the World Cup qualifying match between England and Czechoslovakia ( scene one ) . |