Example sentences of "[art] [noun] that [verb] him [art] " in BNC.

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1 Edward , thinking with relief that he could leave them to it now , began to withdraw , clutching the bottles that gave him a certain exemption , free to come and go .
2 Denis Smith says hopefully to get three points and play good football … there 's not much they can do in two days but his team talk will be tell the players to go out enjoy it and pass the ball … by a strange twist of fate Smith 's first match at the Manor is against the team that gave him the sack last season Bristol City
3 Isambard , putting the door to very softly behind him , was stabbed by yet another of the recollections that fronted him every way where Harry was .
4 Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement .
5 It is important to remember that it was Alexander 's all-consuming passion for the theatre that gave him the determination to find out the cause of his hoarseness .
6 Harry felt in his blood with what calming delight and fulfilment his enemy would embrace the lie that made him the victor .
7 FLYWEIGHT Paul Ingle was eliminated on a 13-12 verdict by strong North Korean southpaw Chol Su Choi — despite a rally that won him the last round 9-4 .
8 His will to win has become a compulsive passion , a virtue that makes him a figure of loathing in the eyes of opposition fans .
9 The camera swung again , but this time George looked above it , to a monitor screen hung on a metal rafter above the audience , to see his own face in close-up , the eyes staring upward in a way that gave him an absurdly soulful look .
10 It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be .
11 During Worswick 's time there , Harwell — as part of the AEA — made the transition to a trading fund ( effectively a nationalised company rather than a government department ) , an experience that taught him a great deal about finance .
12 It was an association that made him an appropriate keeper at Loseley of Montague 's imprisoned son-in-law Henry Wriothesley , second Earl of Southampton [ q.v. ] in 1570 .
13 Advent signals values : that God loved us so much that he was willing to enter upon an adventure that cost him the death of his Son .
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