Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [prep] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not understand the familiarity of the elderly stranger , who gazed at him with the pride of a long-lost brother . |
| 2 | That satraps as well as the king had their entourage of fellow-diners is proved by Xenophon 's Anabasis ( i.8.25 ) which says that Cyrus the Younger had his ‘ table-sharers ’ , and by Diodorus ' description ( xvii.20 ) of the ‘ kinsmen ’ of the satrap Spithrobates , who fought with him at the battle of the Granikos in 334 . |
| 3 | Who cared about him to the depths of her soul , even though he was , in his own mind , completely underserving of her love . |
| 4 | ( He was clearly influenced by Andrea Gabrieli and influenced him in turn , as he did Giovanni who served under him in the Munich choir from c. 1575 to 1579 . ) |
| 5 | He looked around him , aware of the traffic speeding up and down , of the people who walked past him on the pavement , of people coming out of McDonalds laden with fast food . |
| 6 | On one occasion when he had arranged it with elaborate care , he charged a colleague who brushed against him in a narrow passage , destroying the structure of his toga . |
| 7 | Doyle 's attention was drawn by a youth , wearing suit and bow-tie , who called to him from an empty table . |
| 8 | His experience as a flyer was invaluable and those who worked with him at the time , recall the day he died . |
| 9 | Haynes and Jack Henry Moore , who worked with him on the project , planned to be , as It predicted in late April , ‘ as experimental and as international as the Lord Chamberlain will allow ’ . |
| 10 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 11 | Most important of all , he inspired the people who worked for him with a vision of what they were doing . |
| 12 | He spent a short time in conversation with Iris , who looked at him in a way that made Melissa want to shake her . |
| 13 | He did so partly in order that those who looked to him for a lead would have no doubts about where he stood . |
| 14 | In Egyptian mythology the first ruler had been the god Re , the creator , who brought with him in the person of his daughter , Maat , the concepts of truth , justice and the order of nature and society . |
| 15 | But the Emperor remained steadfast in his determination to avenge the murder of his brother , urged , as he told his council of advisors , by his father , the great Constantine , who appeared to him in a dream . |
| 16 | He rose to his feet , genuinely pleased to see the pretty girl who smiled at him from the doorway . |
| 17 | Of course there were other possible interpretations : that Walter Machin did not recognize his sovereign ; that the people who swept by him in a limousine through Admiralty Arch were no higher in the scale than some uppity Tory MP and his lady wife . |
| 18 | But instead of panicking , he proposed to his girlfriend , who sat with him throughout the ordeal . |
| 19 | He turned to Blanche , who sat beside him on the settle , his face grave . |