Example sentences of "him that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have pointed out to him that his picture echoes the medieval and Renaissance formula for St John on Patmos writing the Book of Revelation and for the evangelists writing the Gospels , itself derived from Greco-Roman author portraits . |
| 2 | It is headed by the big man 's white man , the Belgian scholar Raymond , who has lost favour with his patron and is sinking into ceremonies of highly-placed sagacity , Salim has an affair with the white man 's white woman , his stylish wife Yvette : radical chic persuades him that he ‘ never wanted to be ordinary again' . |
| 3 | It is n't lost on him that his reading matter — popular science , pornography — is ‘ junk ’ . |
| 4 | Poor Charles brings him to life again , however , for some further plagiarisms : a nest of antique-dealers , of antic disposition , in Chatterton 's native Bristol , have passed to Charles a cache of papers which , together with the discovery of what seems to be the portrait of an adult Chatterton , persuades him that the poet lived on . |
| 5 | It has been said of him that he would rather live in his native country , and not be allowed to publish , than go elsewhere and be free to do so . |
| 6 | Jenny has urgently advised Tim to return to his dull wife , telling him that her dullness is the ‘ whole point ’ . |
| 7 | In 1946 , a ‘ religious friend ’ told him that he , Levi , belonged to an elect : ‘ I , the non-believer , and even less of a believer after the season of Auschwitz , was a person touched by Grace , a saved man . ’ |
| 8 | Of him that hears it , never in the tongue |
| 9 | Of him that makes it : then , if sickly ears , |
| 10 | If you 've got some new material on him that you want to share with us , I 'm more than happy to arrange another lecture for you later in the term , but frankly , as you 've apparently given the same lecture on him for the past ten years , I can hardly be accused of interfering with academic freedom , can I ? ’ |
| 11 | The officer with the harsh voice was advising him that the money would be ‘ charged to the Lord Advocate 's account ’ if he himself could not ‘ procure the funds ’ . |
| 12 | That seems to have been inspired by his father 's excellent library , as well as the spiritual contact with him that such studying brought . |
| 13 | It never seemed to occur to him that a general idea might be an entirely different sort of thing from an image . |
| 14 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 15 | I tried to tell him that I did n't blame him for deflowering me but he was n't listening . |
| 16 | I answered him with lies , happy that he was so interested after I 'd been certain that he 'd never say a word to me : I told him that I grew it myself , my family grew it , and it was everywhere like green grass and empty milk bottles in London ; it was really amazing hashish. wherever I threw its seeds it sprang up like flames leaping into the air . |
| 17 | He has n't talked to me since , but Violet tells me she has explained to him that ‘ some people are funny about dogs ’ . |
| 18 | Last but not least , Keith is an historian who has frequently visited Mexico and it does n't faze him that I , as a Mexican , should come to his country to write about its artists . |
| 19 | The first few times , the pup gets his food for free to demonstrate to him that people are nice , but after a few treats he has to sit for his stranger and for his supper . |
| 20 | In a single serpentine sentence Porfiry seems to dissolve into his own prose , showering Raskolnikov with a patter of tiny verbal blows as if exercising the Russian particle for its own sake ( nu da uzh ) , telling him that he considers him ‘ quite incapable ’ of committing suicide , and in the same breath to leave ‘ a short circumstantial note if he does . |
| 21 | Stavrogin , needling away , elicits from him that he believes in Russia and the Orthodox Church and the body of Christ . |
| 22 | England in 1920 , it testified to a similar recognition by him that the amateur ideal in the arts , however admirable in the abstract , and however rich its achievements under earlier structures of society , under the conditions of mass democracy could mean only amateurishness in technique , and thin-skinned insolence in debate . |
| 23 | It is rightly said of him that he was always a pedagogue , but he is a pedagogue in the courtly nineteenth-century mode of Professor Agassiz , who sets up the controlled experiment and invites us to participate in it , not in the hectoring and charismatic mode of the star of the lecture-hall . |
| 24 | Rational judgement might have told him that the nation 's plight was hopeless , but his was the vision of an avenging prophet . |
| 25 | ‘ Mr Duke had lived with Miss Jones , ’ he told Lord Donaldson , the Master of the Rolls , sitting with two other judges , ‘ and she told him that Mrs Sutcliffe had negotiated a contract with The Mail on Sunday . |
| 26 | If you continue to smack a two-year-old you are likely to make him more physical , you are effectively telling him that smacking ( ie , hitting people ) is OK . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I told him that was quite unnecessary , ’ Beeson said . |
| 28 | Walter claims to have journeyed as a student to Nepal ( 'did n't everyone ? ' ) for purification , but Vivien reminds him that he only got as far as Ostend . |
| 29 | Now fully recovered from a hairline crack of the shin , Robson spoke to the England manager , Bobby Robson , this morning to tell him that he had suffered no reaction from the Portsmouth game and was fit and well for the Polish trip . |
| 30 | He is finally rejected by the devious , arrogant Keith , who informs him that he is ‘ obsolete ’ because he does not ‘ know how to make things happen ’ . |