Example sentences of "him [noun sg] of the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | When the Constituent Assembly elected him President of the Provisional Government , eighty per cent of the public approved ( according to an opinion poll . ) |
2 | But his form , in an often disappointing side with a fragile back-up , has at times been exceptional and kept him top of the national averages . |
3 | His 62 wickets at 7.28 put him top of the Minor County averages . |
4 | She later made him keeper of the musical archives of the Italian court . |
5 | In that year , also , L'Estrange 's ineptitude cost him control of the official news-books and Muddiman regained it because of the regard he had won from both secretaries of state . |
6 | On 2 November 1715 , General Forster , who had now received a commission from the Earl of Mar appointing him Commander-in-Chief of the Jacobite forces in England , led his somewhat reluctant army through Longtown and Brampton towards Penrith , though the Highlanders with him had cheered up , and become noticeably more loyal , on being promised the handsome pay of sixpence [ 2.5p ] a day . |
7 | Here in the west of Ireland , we call him Balor of the Heavy Blows … |
8 | 692 , Wilfrid took refuge with Aethelred who made him bishop of the Middle Angles ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ; HE IV , 23 ) and stood by him when Wilfrid refused to submit to Aldfrith and Archbishop Beorhtwald at the council of Austerfield c . |