Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Some referred to him as the Furie ; some as Zach or Zacho or Mr Zee ; others called him Gentle , which was the name she knew him by , of course ; still others John the Divine . |
| 2 | This weighed on him like an inactive dreadnought suit of combat armour , imprisoning him ; and he sought his enhanced clarity , as it were , to restore power to that suit . |
| 3 | Very few came to him with a complete understanding of who he was and what he had come to do , so their faith was correspondingly weak . |
| 4 | And we all nodded at him : the man of finance , the man of accounts , the man of law , we all nodded at him over the polished table that like a still sheet of brown water reflected our faces , lined , wrinkled ; our faces marked by toil , by deceptions , by success , by love ; our weary eyes looking still , looking always , looking anxiously for something out of life , that while it is expected is already gone — has passed unseen , in a sigh , in a flash — together with the youth , with the strength , with the romance of illusions . |
| 5 | They all turned against him in the end did n't they ? |
| 6 | Many remonstrated with him for a howling storm was raging outside , it was night and the journey was a dangerous one . |
| 7 | I first came under him at a period in his life when he was abandoning the piano . |
| 8 | Eluard 's soaring ‘ lyricism ’ helped to perpetuate a tyranny , and is the kind of thing which led Kundera to employ the title The Lyric Age for the work which first came to him in the mid-Fifties , and which his publishers prevailed on him to retitle Life is elsewhere when it was completed in 1969 . |
| 9 | When I first bowled to him in the nets I said it was like bowling to Zaheer Abbas . |
| 10 | This woman of twenty spoke to him like a mentor , like a sage . |