Example sentences of "of [noun] [verb] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He released a hundred quintols of amyl to remind him of that . |
| 2 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 3 | Her sigh of exasperation reached him from 3,000 miles away . |
| 4 | One of Reith 's first actions as Minister of Works was to appoint a panel of consultants to advise him on post-war planning . |
| 5 | Danger of choking stopped him at that point . |
| 6 | A series of publications subjecting him to merciless ridicule appeared in 1691 — note the date . |
| 7 | Crowther 's concern that the lay press was weak in its coverage of science led him in 1928 to confront The Manchester Guardian 's legendary editor C. P. Scott with the quip that although there was n't such a profession as science journalism , he , J. G. Crowther , proposed to invent it . |
| 8 | His crown of thorns wounded him like any other victim of torture . |
| 9 | His quiet friendliness , calm courage and sense of humour endeared him to all , Burmans and British alike . |
| 10 | This sense of perspective led him to lucid conclusions about the inescapable reality of decolonization and the long-term interests of France , which were better served by accepting decolonization than by resisting it . |