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Example sentences for "him that"

  • It seemed to him that in his day as in those other and older days, kingdoms might be created and new impulses given to the lives of men by the power of God speaking through a chosen servant.

  • It seemed to him that he was meant by Nature to be a reporter on a newspaper.

  • He wanted terribly to make his life a thing of great importance, and as he looked about at his fellow men and saw how like clods they lived it seemed to him that he could not bear to become also such a clod.

  • It seemed to him that in such a place tremendous things might have happened during the night.

  • It seemed to him that he was in the presence not only of his grandfather but of someone else, someone who might hurt him, someone who was not kindly but dangerous and brutal.

  • It seemed to him that he could feel the eyes of some intruder at his back.

  • The Bird Woman explained to him that it was an easy matter with the subject she then had in hand; and as Little Chicken was too small to be frightened by him, and big enough to be growing troublesome, she was glad for his company.

  • Mr. Sherlock Holmes listened with attention to the long report which I was able to present to him that evening, but it did not elicit that word of curt praise which I had hoped for and should have valued.

  • You wouldn't think there was anyone living at this time of day who had such a hatred of Napoleon the First that he would break any image of him that he could see.

  • It was Nature's second way of hinting to him that he was to prepare for foul weather.

  • It occurred to him that to find Pennyways, and make a friend of him if possible, would be a very wise act.

  • Not till he had ridden more than a mile did it occur to him that he would have done better by sending some other man on this errand, remaining himself in the house.

  • Thirdly, the danger of being unfaithfully counselled, and more for the good of them that counsel, than of him that is counselled.

  • Yet was he troubled to think that men in that danger should so little esteem the kindness of him that so freely offered to help them, both by awakening of them, counselling of them, and proffering to help them off with their irons.

  • If you believe not me, read here in this book; and for the truth of what is expressed therein, behold, all is confirmed by the blood of Him that made it.

  • So when the battle was over, Christian said, "I will here give thanks to him that delivered me out of the mouth of the lion, to him that did help me against Apollyon.

  • A work of grace in the soul discovereth itself, either to him that hath it, or to standers by.

  • When that too had no effect it occurred to him that if two people lay together in bed they warmed each other; so he put him into the bed, covered him up, and lay down beside him; after a time the corpse became warm and began to move.

  • Sex had become so complicated in him that he would have denied that he ever could want Clara or Miriam or any woman whom he knew.

  • And she took no further notice of him that evening.

  • She thought it anomalous in him that he could be so thoroughly absorbed in a triviality.

  • It seemed to him that to sacrifice himself in a marriage he did not want would be degrading, and would undo all his life, make it a nullity.

  • Miss Martineau once said to him that he had no need to study German thought, since his mind was German enough--by which she possibly meant too German--already.

  • He could only ride it on a few days of the week, and it was rather a gain than a loss to him that so good a horseman as his nephew should exercise it during the interval.

  • When it was clear to him that I meant to go alone--had reconciled myself to going alone--he suddenly roused himself to come.

  • The thought of the confined creature was so dreadful to him that he forgot the heat and went forward to the cylinder to help turn.

  • A stirring noise within its cylinder he ascribed to the unequal cooling of its surface; for at that time it had not occurred to him that it might be hollow.

  • It seemed to him that it fell to earth about one hundred miles east of him.

  • It occurred to him that he wanted to travel.

  • It was not conceivable to him that he should talk over her head.

  • It occurred to him that if his wife did impute to him some unworthy motive in stealing off to London, and made herself unhappy in doing so--that would at least provide the compensation of showing that she cared.

  • It was not until he was getting into the hansom which had been summoned, that it all at once occurred to him that he had not for a moment been alone with his betrothed.

  • The thought occurred to him that by entering into conversation with this man, he might indirectly obtain a hint as to the usual breakfast-hour at Hadlow.

  • A dim mass under the slope reminded him that a shed occupied a place here, the site being a cutting into the slope of the hill, so that at its back part the roof was almost level with the ground.

  • He is the comfort of my life--and he is the image of--of him that's gone!

  • Nor did Dobbin try and convince him that Amelia's happiness was not centred in turtle-soup.

  • For ay with gold men may the herte grave Of him that set is up-on coveityse; And how I mene, I shal it yow devyse.

  • Philip was melted by kindness; it had never occurred to him that it mattered really to Mr. Perkins whether he went or stayed.

  • It seemed to him that he waited for at least five minutes, trying to make up his mind; and his hand trembled.

  • The thought came to him that he would go to Rose, and say: "I say, I'm sorry I was such a beast.

  • When they got out of the Gare du Nord, and trundled along the cobbled streets in a ramshackle, noisy cab, it seemed to him that he was breathing a new air so intoxicating that he could hardly restrain himself from shouting aloud.

  • Moreover, all his martial energy notwithstanding, his personality must have been singularly winning; for it is said of him that he left behind not a single enemy, all his opponents having long since been converted by him into friends.

  • But he preached to deaf ears, and it was as something of a concession to him that in March 1878 the British flag was hoisted at Walfish Bay, and a small part of the adjacent land declared to be British.

  • We learn from Xenophon's account of him that he regarded the beautiful as coincident with the good, and both of them are resolvable into the useful.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being unable; brackish water; fruitless tree; glacial times; him again; him for; him like; him than; him that; him the; him who; himself again; himself alone; himself and; himself had; himself said; himself should; himself tells; himself the; himself was; mechanical drawing; quality good; said cheerfully; spirit photography; standard silver; upper class