Example sentences of "thing that [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in order to write about those things that upset him he would have to think about them . |
| 2 | Convention , technique , and an empathy with the popular mind all went into the perfecting of the Chaplin act and it was these things that enabled him to become Sennett 's most accomplished pupil and which allowed him to create the cinema 's most appealing and most universal symbol . |
| 3 | Paul had found all the resources for living , all the things that attracted him , all the relationships that mattered , in God alone . |
| 4 | Everything about it exceeded expectation , though one of the things that struck him was that while the fairways are wide , the hitting area is in fact very narrow if there is to be a chance of attacking the flagsticks . |
| 5 | She often did things and said things that made him feel loved . |
| 6 | We sat down then and all the time he was eating Frankie could n't keep his eyes off her or the things that surrounded him . |
| 7 | Until then Frank had been safe because they had each other , and the things that troubled him were half buried and might well have sunk past danger . |
| 8 | Seth rarely talked about the things that set him apart from the rest of mankind . |
| 9 | He was as cranky as a bad-tempered goat , always putting his head down and charging into things that annoyed him . |
| 10 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 11 | In Conradin 's lonely , loveless world , his imagination was the only thing that kept him alive . |
| 12 | The only thing that kept him decent before was being poor . |
| 13 | He dared not conjecture , but the possibility of that was the only thing that prevented him from abandoning her . |
| 14 | One of soccer 's great trouble-shooters clocked in at the Cadbury 's chocolate factory where Rovers train but the last thing that greeted him was the sweet smell of success . |
| 15 | ‘ His work is the only thing that sustains him , ’ Ketura said . |
| 16 | Mr Bodenland was about to tell me of some tremendous thing that cheered him recently ! ’ |
| 17 | Parenthetically , erm he says somewhere in his autobiography that the one thing that consoled him in the nineteen-hundreds when he was so miserable with his wife and his mathematics , was the devising of , was the devising of prose rhythms . |
| 18 | It had come to him over the last year or so that there was only one thing that made him different from other men , and that was the weight he was carrying on his mind . |
| 19 | It was the same thing that made him physically shrink into his scarf and his leather jacket . |
| 20 | She came to know instinctively the kind of candid , vivid anecdote that found favour with him , the sort of thing that made him chuckle with delight , and sometimes scribble it down in a note-book . |
| 21 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 22 | ‘ Does it mean that everybody has some definite thing that moves him ? ’ |
| 23 | I knew perfectly well that he respected the Manager and even liked him though it was against his nature to admit it ; the thing that maddened him was that this had happened behind his back , and for a reason which he obviously found as inadequate as I did . |
| 24 | That that 's the kind of thing that starts him off ( starts him off ) . |
| 25 | Yet that sort of worry is the kind of thing that makes him so exciting . ’ |
| 26 | The thing that perturbed him slightly , though , was that most of the men she talked to were young rather than old . |
| 27 | The thing that annoyed him most was that this was all such a waste of time when there was work to do . |
| 28 | The thing that impressed him least , he says , was the weather . |
| 29 | The thing that interested him most , however , was the rope of the great alarm bell on the roof . |
| 30 | One thing that frightened him was the thought that , for some reason or other , Busby might prevent them from leaving . |