Example sentences of "[that] [vb -s] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |