Example sentences of "that it [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gedge 's infatuation with Rigby was so powerful that it led him to agree that Duane , a guitarist , could join the group . |
| 2 | Here is a passage of Thoreau which both demonstrates the creative process and also shows that it led him to the peak experience which he termed being charmed . |
| 3 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 4 | Can he pick up a tin of beans without feeling that it hates him ? |
| 5 | Was he so wrapped up in his beautiful secretary that it blinded him to everything ? |
| 6 | The sea was such a mess that it took him a few moments to be sure of the reef . |
| 7 | He longed then , suddenly , and with a passion that had been suppressed so long that it took him by surprise , for someone to share all this with . |
| 8 | Apple Computer Inc chief John Sculley reckons it is essential for the head of a computer company to have a clear grasp of technological directions and acknowledged that it took him several years before he felt confident to take strategic decisions . |
| 9 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 10 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |
| 11 | Despite some criticisms that it made him look like Michael Foot , it was a media success . |
| 12 | Ironically , it was so bitter that it made him a liability to the early Fascist movement , from whose main body he was later to break away . |
| 13 | He felt a spasm of hatred so intense , so physical that it made him retch . |
| 14 | Perturbed by the keenness of his loss , afraid that it made him , in truth , a stuffed-shirt Englishman as Hannele had assumed , Edward Carrington went to the bathroom and began to fill the mighty iron tub . |
| 15 | He laid his hand on it , implying that it represented him , and slaughtered it . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps aliens have taken her , ’ suggested Joe , not giving the impression that it concerned him very greatly . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most important element in Florey 's brief occupation of the Sheffield chair was that it brought him into close contact with Edward Mellanby ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 18 | The Coke was cold and Harry drank it gratefully , even though he could feel that it brought him out in an instant sweat . |
| 19 | The edition for 1605 , no longer extant , was said to have foretold the Gunpowder Plot so accurately that it brought him under suspicion of complicity . |
| 20 | Yet I could see , sitting next to him , that it brought him contentment which at other levels he lacked . |
| 21 | It was so sudden , so complete , that it unnerved him . |
| 22 | The appeal of this closely-worked new study is that it presents him as a comprehensive human being . |
| 23 | The great advantage of his system , with its reliance upon external characters and analogies , was that it enabled him to make sense of the whole animal kingdom without the lifetime of research which Lardner 's schedule made impossible . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Not that it worried him . |
| 29 | Crozier sought to delay the making of the statement on the ground that it defamed him and might prejudice the jury in Barnet 's action against him , which would come on for trial some six months later . |
| 30 | The only advantage of illness , as far as Eliot was concerned , was that it released him from the general round of works and days — it was , he used to say , his body 's way of telling him to stop — and during periods of ill health such as this one he seemed better able to write . |