Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 2 | Wally Smott 's mediocrity raised him above many of the managers who guided the club over the years , but Athletico reserved a bottom six position from 1951 to 1955 and Ken Mentle 's dream of League football became a nightmare . |
| 3 | Captain Meredith treated him to one of his freezing looks . |
| 4 | In their turn the Norwegians accepted him as one of themselves ; it was they who named him the ‘ father of Norwegian mountaineering ’ . |
| 5 | In January 1950 Averell Harriman , a man whose international experience distinguished him from many of the more parochial critics , protested that the British chancellor of the exchequer 's narrow economic vision was sabotaging Western European integration . |
| 6 | Jane accompanied him on one of his forays one evening . |
| 7 | It 's an ill wind that blows nobody any good , thought Neil platitudinously , as a large bruiser pushed him against one of the pillars of the Haymarket Theatre — I might get my nose broken , but at least my virtue looks like remaining intact ! |
| 8 | He persuaded the CPP to nominate him as one of the two candidates for the Accra double-member constituency . |
| 9 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 10 | Although he detested journalism his Johnsonian manner and compelling character established him as one of Fleet Street 's most charismatic figures . |
| 11 | Joseph Mollicone , president of the Heritage Loan Investment Bank , disappeared in November 1990 after auditors asked him about millions of dollars in missing loans from the bank . |
| 12 | Shaw joined the company in 1944 and was still only 17 when Ashton used him as one of the three male dancers in Symphonic Variations . |
| 13 | Ludens followed him into one of the other rooms , a bedroom , green , where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness . |
| 14 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 15 | The 55-year-old 's icy calm distinguished him as one of General Norman Schwarzkopf 's closest aides during the Gulf War . |
| 16 | Bob introduced him to some of the usual crowd , and Morris asked Bill Waddy , who was buying , for a Pernod . |
| 17 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 18 | She 'd probably have the bad taste to put him in one of her cynical , satirical stories . |
| 19 | Hannele introduced him to two of ficers in some sort of private uniform and they were conducted to a stateroom . |
| 20 | He felt unseen hands help him into one of the partitioned stalls and there he stretched out and closed his stinging eyes . |
| 21 | After Labour won the 1945 election , Burke accompanied Attlee to the Potsdam Conference ; and later that year the Prime Minister named him as one of his private secretaries . |
| 22 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 23 | The policewoman came back , with a man ; Alice recognised him as one of those from the other night . |
| 24 | His spare time took him to many of Yorkshire 's fixtures . |