Example sentences of "of him [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In competition with 800 other boys , he made it to the last five , but nerves got the better of him during a final audition at the Criterion Theatre , in London 's West End . |
| 2 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 3 | Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward . |
| 4 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 5 | She had tales to tell of him as a small boy , as a young man . |
| 6 | One was always conscious of him as a great Christian ; only later did you become conscious of his denominational affiliation . |
| 7 | At the same time he is depicted as a saint by the bishop of Tours , who may well have thought of him as a fellow victim of Merovingian politics . |
| 8 | Although Alexander lent his authority to domestic reforms , it is unwise to think of him as a daring pilot in extremity . |
| 9 | Biggs is of the opinion that Mason would be unlikely to survive more than a couple of rounds against the world heavyweight champion and at this stage it would be unwise to even think of him as a genuine contender . |
| 10 | She thought of him as a drug-running tyrant . |
| 11 | She thought of him as a big tree , with strong branches that enabled her to climb him , which she did when he was home . |
| 12 | His admirers think of him as a national treasure , rather like the works of art of which he is Congress 's most passionate defender . |
| 13 | His fellow-undergraduates thought of him as a gangly youth with brown hair . |
| 14 | For one thing , the Hebrews did not divide man up into spirit , mind and body as we tend to do : they thought of him as a single entity , an animated body , a living person . |
| 15 | She thought of him as an aging hippy . |
| 16 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 17 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 18 | And , as he finished pouring their brandies , she walked ahead of him through the open doorway and stood for a moment before the huge window , listening to the music , gazing out to sea , aware of a sense of peace and deep contentment . |
| 19 | I looked through the window and there was no sign of him through the little back window , looked through this one , there was still sign so I thought God ! |
| 20 | We were sitting cross-legged on either side of him with a vast array of tiny dishes on finely worked brass trays stretching before us , and entirely lit by Aladdin lamps on specially wrought stands . |
| 21 | She felt as distant from Dada as on that faraway teatime when he had turned down Dora 's Dolls ' House in favour of his photograph album though now she thought of him with a gentle benevolence , the distance between them was changeless . |
| 22 | Even those who do not share his political opinions readily pay their tribute to the range of his intellect and the graciousness of his character ; more remarkable still , even those whose intellectual qualities are the equal of his , but whose moral qualities have degenerated in contact with the sordid atmosphere of politics , never speak of him with an affected amusement as a religious bigot or a narrow-minded moralist ; in the remarks of these latter politicians I often detect a tone of rather wistful regret , as if they were conscious in themselves of a loss for which the world they have gained has by no means compensated . |
| 23 | ‘ And there … ’ she stood up and walked round the table , placing the browning photograph firmly in front of him on the bright red and white of the American-cloth table cover , ‘ there 's … ’ she pointed to a figure dimly glimpsed beside a pillar in the background . |
| 24 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 25 | Though he knew the press would be sending a photographer to take a picture of him for the financial pages of the newspaper , he suspected that their main interest was in Hank . |
| 26 | He held the wig in front of him like a withered bouquet . |
| 27 | Sometimes she was served up garnished with prizes , a certificate of excellence in swimming or a merit card from a teacher , but more often than not she was slapped down in front of him like a British Rail sandwich , garnished with a series of medical complaints . |
| 28 | Behind her , in the stern , sat Peng Yu-wei , tall , elderly and very upright , his staff held in front of him like an unflagged mast . |
| 29 | Conscious of a ripping sound , she heard her zip go , then her taffeta skirt was rustling to the floor and he was pulling her down among its glossy folds , his lips marauding over hers so that it was the way it was in the unrequited dreams of the empty nights when everything came down to the touch of him like the still centre of the entire world . |
| 30 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |