Example sentences of "[noun sg] that [verb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The blood had been washed from his face and body , and he was still wearing the very good quality underwear that showed him indeed to be the son of an aristocratic family , who , despite Robespierre and Talleyrand still gave one of their sons to the Church . |
| 2 | He hits his irons particularly sweetly , a talent that serves him well at Hayling , Hampshire 's only links , where still days are few and far between . |
| 3 | He had changed physically but the movement of his body down the carriage for coffee still had that freedom that set him apart from the suited composure of the brief case brigade that filled the train . |
| 4 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 5 | Likeably laid-back and a philosophic kind of personality , Hastings currently has a crucial priority — recovery from back damage that kept him out of that Second Australian Test . |
| 6 | Without pausing to measure the distance , he launched himself into a desperate leap that carried him right across the opening . |
| 7 | To this end , he had not even considered packing anything that could remotely be considered seaside wear , and as a result suppressed a pang of envy when his cab turned along the Victoria Parade and his eyes beheld a scene that reminded him irresistibly of his annual holiday at Margate , fortunately yet to come . |
| 8 | After two years designing murals for Wimpey , the construction company , he took a teaching post that enticed him back into the photography world , and led to a post-graduate degree at the Royal College . |
| 9 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 10 | The mechanism that thrust him away from advertising and into politics and enabled him to change his life was the London Business School . |
| 11 | One trait that former ‘ Robben Islanders ’ recall is his remarkable , almost photographic , memory — a quality that served him well in his ascent through the ANC hierarchy . |
| 12 | Steve , with the instinct that marks him out as a real mountaineer , not just a climber , had searched for and seen an abseil that avoided the First Brittle Ice Traverse , It took us past the Pocket Hanging Glacier seracs , where the ropes twisted into corkscrews and jammed tight . |
| 13 | After he had put the phone down , he looked at his watch before the inevitable fingers pushed through his hair , forcing it back , and reached for his glasses , that magic movement that turned him back to Dr Rafaelo . |
| 14 | He is hurt and shaken , but he insisted on coming back with me to say thank you for making the message that warned him away from the bog . |
| 15 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 16 | Embodying the alienation of the Westernized Latin-American intellectual , the protagonist of The Lost Steps , a musician resident in New York , recovers his lost identity as a man and as an artist when he undertakes an expedition to the jungles of the Orinoco , a journey that takes him backwards in time to a prehistoric world ; but his eventual return to civilization implies a recognition on Carpentier 's part that , for a twentieth-century Latin American , going back to one 's roots has to be compatible with the realities of the modern world . |
| 17 | So we share his horror as he observes in himself , experiences almost passively — as if it were happening to someone else — the emergence of the tempting desire to murder Duncan ( ‘ suggestion ’ still had the sense of diabolic temptation ) : There , with amazing speed , and as if parenthetically ( ‘ whose murder yet ’ ) we become privy to the secret that sets him apart from the others on stage , the goal to which all his energies will ultimately be directed . |
| 18 | He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him . |
| 19 | The won the tournament in 1959 , but was n't able to compete in 1960 due to a serious knee infection that kept him out of action for most of the first half of the season . |
| 20 | He saw also Dutch things in the French heat , bridges not formally different from those in Delft and Leyden , colours in the glare that reminded him primarily of the soft blues and yellows of Vermeer . |
| 21 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |
| 22 | When she wanted not to reply to something , she would lift her ravishing upper lip over her opened teeth in a way that put him alarmingly in mind of a horse wanting to be bridled . |
| 23 | Yet Conrad uses these elements , which we may term romantic , in a way that sets him far from stories , seemingly similar , by ( say ) Rider Haggard or Buchan . |
| 24 | and a sulk that yanked him back to her |
| 25 | Despite his appearance , the erstwhile executioner treated the princes with a rough kindliness that set him apart from the other attendants — taking it upon himself to ensure that the food was to their liking and the fire well-tended . |
| 26 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 27 | Miller , speaking from Jersey where Hibs beat an island select 6-0 last night , confirmed that Budgie will be back in goal if Reid fails to recover from the ankle injury that forced him out of the trip . |
| 28 | But Reid 's fury was outweighed by his concern over Paul Lake , who was carried off after seven minutes with what appeared to be a recurrence of the knee injury that kept him out for two years . |
| 29 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 30 | It proved enough for a most handsome victory over decidedly off-colour Ontario and it was an enormous pity that Rod Snow , the dynamic Newfoundland no.8 , sustained a neck injury that kept him out of the final . |