Example sentences of "those who [verb] him [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others . |
| 2 | Even in Carluke , there are those who are far from convinced that Beattie , then only 19 and described by those who knew him as a train-daft ‘ big softie ’ , was capable of such a violent act . |
| 3 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 4 | Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party . |
| 5 | In the second camp are those who regard him as a true philosopher , however provocative his manner , who is restating traditional philosophical problems in a new way . |
| 6 | Gerald Kaufman is another who will hesitate to play the sporting card , although there are those who remember him as a midfield dynamo , eternally squabbling with the referee and being booked for ‘ violence of the tongue ’ , an offence which he is said to have invented . |
| 7 | At Dorchester on 20 October 1714 , the day of George 's coronation , it was the decision of the Dissenters to burn an effigy of the Pretender that provoked the wrath of the Jacobites , who armed with clubs proceeded to set about " those who carried him about the Town … |
| 8 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man . |
| 9 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |
| 10 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 11 | There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings , including his own , an anti-philosopher , a disconcerting jester , gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought . |
| 12 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 13 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |