Example sentences of "that [verb] him [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wright is still suffering with the groin injury that ruled him out of England 's World Cup qualifier 12 days ago , while Adams also missed the Chelsea defeat after falling down some stairs on a night out last week , and needing 29 stitches in a cut forehead . |
| 3 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 4 | It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | Omnipresence was only one of several attributes that tipped him over into the realm of the superhuman . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was like a gold miner , chipping away at the rocks and occasionally discovering tantalizing little nuggets that spurred him on towards his dream of striking a rich seam . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Manchester United skipper Bryan Robson has recovered from the muscle strain that kept him out of Saturday 's win over Premier League leaders , Norwich , leaving boss Alex Ferguson with a headache . |
| 20 | Between 1912 and 1928 Lutyens was responsible for redesigning eighty square miles of offices , avenues and palaces in New Delhi to house the British Government in India , an undertaking that kept him out of England for the best part of every winter . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Very possibly , and a remark of Michael Carson 's explaining what it was that took him abroad in search of the other shows how the celebration may share the stereotypes of the demonized : |
| 25 | Suddenly he was crying too , deep racking sobs that took him back to a night long ago , soon after his father was killed . |
| 26 | He found himself looking for her in the street , in the trains that took him down to his busking . |
| 27 | He walked on , climbing the flight of stone steps that brought him up into the Strand itself . |
| 28 | It was the Lord Ba'al 's love for the virgin Anat that brought him back from the dead , in response to her tears . |
| 29 | The two whippets that accompanied him even at the front and the outsize shako of the Death 's Head Hussars he usually wore rounded out the picture . |
| 30 | He 'd only said that to get him out of Mrs Wright 's house . |