Example sentences of "[vb past] taught him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faces from the past seemed to come back and taunt him — Carmina Twist , the gypsy-eyed temptress from his university days ; Vauxhall Nova , his first great love , the woman who 'd taught him to say ‘ When ’ ; Lal Basingstoke — big , blonde , beautiful , inexhaustible , extremely tiring Lal Basingstoke . |
| 2 | His eyes searched Meredith 's anxiously , as he tried to get his tongue around the word she 'd taught him . |
| 3 | with your driving instructor he 'd taught him to do |
| 4 | Emerson 's essay on ‘ history ’ begins , ‘ There is one mind common to all individual men ’ , whereas Eliot 's anthropological reading had taught him to be wary of the nineteenth-century assumption of what was ‘ in the words of M. Lévy-Bruhl , the uniformity of mind ’ . |
| 5 | Tolkien had taught him that the inability to believe in Christianity was primarily a failure of the imagination . |
| 6 | She had taught him with the thrashing that he would be punished if he was caught ! |
| 7 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 8 | His background had taught him to be sober , frugal and methodical . |
| 9 | While he was still a child , the family 's black servants had taught him to make clay models of animals , using thorns for their horns , and how to paint on stones using natural colours . |
| 10 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 11 | Tim Skerritt had taught him how to catch a trout with his bare hands ; had taught him how to light a fire in the open without the aid of matches or flint . |
| 12 | Tim Skerritt had taught him how to catch a trout with his bare hands ; had taught him how to light a fire in the open without the aid of matches or flint . |
| 13 | Fortunately Chief Petty Officer Richard Saunders RN , my husband 's father , had taught him very early how to box the compass and he was able to bring her north of Scotland , round our north eastern seaboard and bring her in to Chatham dockyard for paying-off . |
| 14 | They continued chatting for a while , in which time Nigger got the definite impression that the six months in jail that Terry told him he had recently endured for receiving stolen property , had taught him nothing at all . |
| 15 | He signed a photograph for Max Rinder , the professional dancer who had taught him , with the words : ‘ To the only man who ever taught me anything . ’ |
| 16 | His father had taught him that these must be suppressed , but now that the old attorney was dead Paul felt free to become himself ; what that might mean was not yet clear to him . |
| 17 | Bert ran then , faster than he had ever run before and , dragging the lifeless form on to the sand , he put into practice all that Arnold Spence had taught him , swiftly , efficiently and with complete self-confidence . |
| 18 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 19 | Experience had taught him that it was when you stopped to catch your breath that things caught you . |
| 20 | If only he 'd learned the lesson his father had taught him when he taught him , before it all went wrong . |
| 21 | He opened his mouth , and sang the song of the One-Eyed White Girl , the song his father had taught him . |
| 22 | A Swiss he had once known had taught him how to locate bugging mechanisms . |
| 23 | and his time on Earth had taught him to feel cold as an intellectual concept , if not a physical one , and he might have wished to take shelter . |
| 24 | He wound his window down and thought momentarily of his brother-in-law , Eddie Kruger , who had taught him all the conversational German he knew . |
| 25 | He inhabited a narrow world of self-dedication , as surely as the Jesuits who had taught him . |
| 26 | Harfleur had taught him a lesson : he must be properly prepared for siege warfare , all the more so since he now planned a conquest which could only be achieved through sieges and the show of effective military might . |
| 27 | Delta had taught him that fear was all in the mind . |
| 28 | And he would sing to himself in his house or in his boat the song which his father had taught him many years ago . |
| 29 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |
| 30 | His long experience of bird watching in the hills of Arran had taught him the best vantage points . |