Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [verb] him [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | There have been many doubts that Gazza could n't make a come-back at club level or even contemplate straddling the international scene again with the outrageous talent that made him a folk hero . |
| 3 | But it was working as a computer specialist in the insurance industry that gave him the necessary experience , most notably the motor insurance experience , he needed . |
| 4 | In a world of single parents , almost all of them female , it is the relationship that the young man has with a solid male figure that gives him an edge and keeps him on the straight and narrow . |
| 5 | London Scottish sevens coach and former scrum-half Andy Cushing has been helping PORTUGAL in training and , without any doubt , in spite of a temperamental outburst from Pedro Neiva that earned him an early shower and a one-match suspension , it showed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But it was n't his deeds that made him a Christian , it was his trust in Jesus Christ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A series of injuries slowed his progress but ultimately , it was attitude that cost him the chance of blossoming into a great player . |
| 10 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 11 | ‘ The wizard said that the little man had some sort of golden disc that told him the time , ’ said the Weasel . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | But World War I gave him the chance to stand on internationalist ground with an uncompromising fervour and personal courage that gave him a status denied to most of the others , whose work lay in the factories and in the shop stewards ' movement . |
| 14 | Then I saw the spare figure of Captain Robins walking towards me , bag in hand : even on land after such a short voyage he had the kind of rolling gait that proclaimed him a man of the sea . |
| 15 | And it was this ability to get straight to the point and to turn conventional wisdom on its head that earned him the respect of so many staff and others with whom he regularly had to confront thorny questions of Amnesty strategy and its relations with governments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It was only that now , having finally admitted that she loved him , that she 'd loved him almost from the moment they 'd met , she was able to admit that it was those very same qualities that made him the man he was . |
| 18 | Sugar have provided the right vehicle for Mould to tether his current world-view to , providing ( with Mould 's guitar and the tightness of the rhythm section ) a set of beautifully hard-knuckled rock arrangements that give him the clout he needs to reinforce the feeling inherent in his vocals . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Though unsophisticated , many of his patriotic songs have a stirring lilt ; on politics he wrote with indignation , rough good humour , and an effective turn of phrase that earned him the reputation of being one of the best political ballad-writers in the kingdom . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | During this time Coe was on the dole and living in Bermondsey , and it is this period of his life that gave him the basis for The Dwarves of Death . |
| 23 | Ironically , it was the Government which he partly blamed for the affair that gave him the chance to return to work after retirement . |
| 24 | Singleton has an astonishing three year deal with Columbia that gives him the freedom to make as many films as he can in that time . |
| 25 | There was something raw about him ; his body sweated to its essence , his face betraying a hunger behind its symmetry that lent him a bedevilled look . |
| 26 | If , however , Shakespeare did actually exist , then he must have possessed certain attributes that made him the kind of existent he was , even though no attributes that he may have had would have been sufficient to individuate him in a metaphysical sense . |
| 27 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 28 | His will to win has become a compulsive passion , a virtue that makes him a figure of loathing in the eyes of opposition fans . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He had heavy grey-flecked eyebrows that gave him a wise demeanour and looked on religion the way some men looked on marriage : as a necessary part of life . |