Example sentences of "what [vb -s] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Imbert insists the small and intimate aspect of the exhibition is what fascinates him . |
| 2 | This last characteristic is of central importance : this , above all else , is what associates him with the earlier philhellenes and their quest for wholeness , and sets him against his own scholarly profession . |
| 3 | Deals are what drives him . |
| 4 | In such a pure case of one man 's gain being the other 's loss , what forbids him , even in the fullest awareness from both viewpoints , to act on the inclination from his own ? |
| 5 | What motivates him is the same thing as motivates the riders . |
| 6 | What antagonises him is the prospect of the civiliser being rendered savage , the moral made immoral . |
| 7 | What sustains him is the comfort he derives from the spiritual world of the Indian , as he escapes the alienating environment of the school to listen to Quechua music and to renew his bonds with the magical world of nature , but his experiences call into question the effectiveness of Quechua values in the white world in which he must live . |
| 8 | What sustains him constantly is belief in god or Truth , for the strength of a satyāgrahi is firmly rooted in faith and prayer . |
| 9 | What sustains him throughout is his recourse to certain fundamental principles of order and authority which , although they may be tangentially related to his espousal of Christianity , have their roots much further back in his own past and particularly in his early study of Bradley and Maurras . |
| 10 | I sometimes think that 's what wakes him — an obscure sense of loss , an occult awareness that I am no longer conscious . |
| 11 | Understandable , you might think , but the tragedy of the accident is n't what concerns him , oh no . |
| 12 | GUIL : Draw him on to pleasures — glean what afflicts him . |
| 13 | Glean what afflicts him . |
| 14 | We have to glean what afflicts him . |
| 15 | We , Rosencrantz and Guildenstern , from our young days brought up with him , awakened by a man standing on his saddle , are summoned , and arrive , and are instructed to glean what afflicts him and draw him on to pleasures , such s a play , which unfortunately , as it turns out , is abandoned in some confusion owing to certain nuances outside our appreciation — which , among other causes , results in , among other effects , a high , not to say , homicidal , excitement in Hamlet , whom we , in consequence , are escorting , for his own good , to England . |
| 16 | A leading publisher , Hugh Murray , has trouble deciding what scares him most . |
| 17 | What puzzles him , and us , is United 's newly disencrusted coat of arms and its motto ‘ ex nihilo , nihil fit . ’ |
| 18 | Referring to the effect of the new deployment on Saddam Hussein 's policy , Bush commented that he hoped for sanctions to work within a two-month period , but that " if this movement of forces is what convinces him [ of the need to comply with UN resolutions ] , so much the better " . |
| 19 | It has after all become a commonplace that the creative imagination of the philosopher , mathematician or scientist is not much different from that of a prophet or poet ; what distinguishes him is how he treats his findings in retrospect . |
| 20 | We look at the individual to discern the imprint of society : it is what he shares with his associates , not what distinguishes him from them , that directly interests us . |
| 21 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 22 | What bothers him , though , is the science that lies behind it ; he ca n't make head or tail of what he tries to read about it . |
| 23 | Hilton is aware that ultimately the lord will be best judge of what helps him most , but he suggests that every day should start with an effort to discipline his whole attention to God . |
| 24 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 25 | What annoys him is people who say Moliere is not funny : ‘ I do n't read reviews although I understand we have done extremely well , but a couple thought it has to be very serious . |
| 26 | What prompts him to this unexpected adjective is that ( as Bunting stressed ) the poems these men admired were not ‘ simplified to aim at the poor ’ , but ‘ written for a hard intellectual audience ’ . |
| 27 | Everything that is most important about Camus , though , lies less in what identifies him with these names , these ideas , than in what distinguishes him from them — and that is the experience of growing up in ‘ poverty and sunlight ’ in Algiers . |
| 28 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 29 | What sets him apart is a very open-minded attitude which seems to have borne fruit in the shape of some seriously great ideas . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |