Example sentences of "of him [verb] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been prudent of him to call in the police surgeon to confirm his estimate of the time of death . |
| 2 | Goons to either side of him took in the air through their foreheads . |
| 3 | Multiple shadows of him fell on the perimeter wall , leaping like pale giants . |
| 4 | ‘ And whatever his accent or his defects , I do n't suppose one of those blockheads making a jeer of him listened to a word he was saying . ’ |
| 5 | Now , however , the Scots were more audacious and belligerent than ever , and Lancaster was the heir to Edward 's problems , particularly as the earl raised quite as many qualms and suspicions as the king did ; there was even talk of him allying with the Scots in order to defeat his English enemies . |
| 6 | And now to think of him listening to the rhapsody of such another youngster as this Merbury , besotted as they all were on their paragon , Hotspur ! |
| 7 | There was Stringfellows ' night club , that appalling leather suit , the friendship with an aerobic gymnast , newspaper photos of him stripped to the waist , the gold earrings , and his nights on the town . |
| 8 | FOLLOWING our revelation yesterday of claims about Di and her friend Major James Hewitt , it was reported last night that a photo exists of him stripped to the waist as he chats to the princess . |
| 9 | Sheriff Crozier said yesterday that it would have been wrong of him to deal with the matter behind the scenes . |
| 10 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 11 | They used to giggle and splutter when they saw the old man , thinking of him sitting on a toadstool in the moonlight . |
| 12 | yes , he 's took a photo of him sitting on the bike so you then he just had to pin it up on , on my thingy , and it 'd say , you know , you 'll never have this , it 'll give you something to , to go for . |
| 13 | He had a momentary vision of the tall , proud tower blocks that rose on either side of him collapsing in a cloud of dust . |
| 14 | Nutty thought of him sleeping with the chestnut mare … |
| 15 | There were pictures of him fooling on a mono-ski ; triumphant beside a huge fish hauled tail-up by a rope , his arms flung around the necks of two fellows . |
| 16 | We thought of him lying in a cell . |
| 17 | When I think of him sighing in the lane on the other side of the Park he seems far too close to home , far too much a part of all the difficult things in life . |
| 18 | He managed to catch a brief glimpse of him talking to a man at the end of the platform . |
| 19 | She remembered vividly the sight of him crying in the car that night , and she still did n't understand what that had been about . |
| 20 | There were only ladders between the floors and , as he grasped the rungs , he saw again his aunt 's long trousered legs ahead of him disappearing into the chamber above . |
| 21 | The prospect of him returning to the family home prompted her action under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 22 | I want Presley dead and all memory of him driven from the Earth . |
| 23 | Similarly , it is shrewd of him to play for the internationalist vote after a prolonged period of sullen Little Englandism during which Labour threatened to withdraw from the Common Market and called into question this country 's role within Nato . |
| 24 | Then , he became a little fractious , as take after take was made of him standing on a street corner with an exuberant human leaping over his head a few dozen times . |
| 25 | I have a vivid picture of him standing by the barn and saying in his quietly savage way ( he is the kindest of men ) — ‘ If the American people understood the real character of Alger Hiss , they would boil him in oil . ’ ’ |
| 26 | Sally-Anne took the kiss and the last sight of him standing in the parlour in his beautiful evening clothes up to bed with her , and agreed with him — for really the end of the evening and their happy supper together had been the best thing of all . |
| 27 | Of course , she would n't go ; the image of him standing in the porch of the tall house , pressing the bell pointlessly , made her lips twitch . |
| 28 | Belinda knew it would be Tom Russell , but that did n't stop her from flushing foolishly at the sight of him standing in the doorway , jiggling his car keys in his hand . |
| 29 | Actually , one of him leaping into the canyon would have been far more spectacular . |
| 30 | They had heard , or heard of , prophets such as Jeremiah or Ezekiel speaking of God being behind the disaster , of him fighting on the enemy side . |