Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] of him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends and relatives speak of him in glowing terms . |
| 2 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 3 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 4 | Before Lord George obtained this command , however , his inability to render the services expected of him by some of the family 's political friends was a liability , and was seen as such by Montrose , who wrote with some anxiety to deny allegations that the son of another gentleman of the region was serving in Lord George 's ship , but was on board the flagship of the admiral . |
| 5 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |