Example sentences of "[that] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I scrambled up to find a rather nervous photographer who had not enjoyed the path that led him to that spot . |
| 2 | Steve Raper ( Punyettas ) had a 4 lb bream in the first ten minutes opposite the bungalows and continued on the feeder with caster for roach that lifted him to 11–10–0 . |
| 3 | Today we can admire the determination that drove him across dangerous seas to find the ‘ New World ’ . |
| 4 | Then the world seemed to be going round and he was falling down and someone was running from a distance , one of the Keepers , in a grey uniform and with a fat pale face that filled him with such fear that he began to cry out in Hebrew words that he had forgotten he knew . |
| 5 | The IM reached for the telephone that linked him by direct line to Bacton . |
| 6 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 7 | For the ‘ Banality ’ show , Koons created a startling series of ads that showed him in four flagrantly artificial settings . |
| 8 | So far as Pitt was concerned , America came first , but he was as delighted as anyone when the English force protecting Hanover won a distinct success against France at Minden , which might have been decisive if Lord George Sackville had not disobeyed an order to charge in a way that exposed him to conspicuous , though not permanent , disgrace . |
| 9 | A keen diver and photographer , he runs a marine consultancy part time that takes him to many of the world 's most interesting coral reefs . |
| 10 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 11 | But it is sobering to reflect that Bowes could devote so much time and energy to assembling his huge collections , a task that preoccupied him for many years , without apparently caring that a main source of his wealth , coal , was blighting lives and blighting the countryside . |
| 12 | And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 . |
| 13 | His round was made around a run of five 3s from the second to the sixth holes — that brought him to two under for the championship . |
| 14 | Now he staggered towards Holly , making a path between the tables and benches and the backs of sitting men that flanked him on one side , and the waiting line on the other . |
| 15 | Out of a crop of precocious back division talent to whom Scotland will looking in the not-too-distant future , Gregor Peter John Townsend , who will not be 19 until April 26 , presents an amalgam of skill , pace and learning capacity that mark him as one of specially exciting potential . |
| 16 | He was always happy to help her keep her hair beautiful , even when it was time to use the greenish-brown powder that reminded him of warm cow-dung when she mixed it with water . |
| 17 | He tells interviewer Melvyn Bragg in Sunday 's South Bank Show that acting was a therapy that saved him from self-destruction . |
| 18 | He had a kind of inbuilt guilt that saved him from most affairs , but also occasionally made a fool of him . |
| 19 | Forsbrand came home in 30 for a 66 that put him on ten under par 134 but said : ‘ I 've never shot 29 for nine holes and I missed a four footer on the last . ’ |
| 20 | Whereas Cipriani , in all his dealings , retained a high degree of honour , albeit confused , those that superseded him after 1938 , heralded in a period that is recognised by some as the nadir of political life in Trinidad . |
| 21 | Sheffield Wednesday 's player-manager watched his side claim a place in the last eight of the Coca-Cola Cup by destroying the club that sacked him in controversial circumstances . |
| 22 | Although all this assured him a footnote in the history of British science , it was his intimate association with one of the most celebrated scientific forgeries that rescued him from relative obscurity . |
| 23 | D. B. Sweeney plays Doug Dorsey , a working class lad whose bright future in the National Hockey League is ended by a playing accident that leaves him with permanent eye damage . |