Example sentences of "of him [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The origin of ITV can be explained in many ways : as a classic case ( perhaps the first , post-war ) of high pressure political lobbying ; as Churchill 's revenge on the BBC for its disdainful treatment of him during the 1926 General Strike and in his wilderness years in the 1930s , when he was largely kept off the air ; or as part of the Conservative move to ‘ set the people free ’ from the bureaucracy and greyness allegedly intrinsic to Labour planning and the construction of the welfare state ( sweets , be it remembered , did not finally come off ration until 1953 ) . |
| 2 | How curious that she could now think of him without the tiniest pang ; it was as if the shadow of Max had been totally eclipsed by the substance of Luke — with all its ramifications . |
| 3 | She went ahead of him up the narrow stairs , which twisted round . |
| 4 | He openly talked of him as the probable successor to the see of Canterbury . |
| 5 | ‘ I think of him as the big brother I never had . ’ |
| 6 | The term kerygma , proclamation , is normally held to refer , in such a phrase as ‘ the Jesus of the kerygma ’ , to the proclamation concerning Jesus ; that is to say the proclamation of him as the resurrected one , as Lord and Saviour . |
| 7 | His name was Bartholemew Burton , but everyone thought of him as the little 'un . |
| 8 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 9 | Thank god he s having more shots now too — that s been my only criticism of him over the last year , now he s looking to shoot more , and scoring ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | They think the world of him at the Northern . |
| 13 | With the bit of paper in one hand and the keys in the other , he held his arms straight out in front of him at the same height . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | The last thing we want is pictures of him on the back pages having a punch-up . |
| 16 | Faldo had to wait until the ‘ 89 Masters before he could catch up with Lyle and maybe the picture of him on the 11th green , the second hole of a sudden-death play-off with Scott Hoch , encapsulates Europe 's men in the majors in the Eighties . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ Allocate a man to take care of him for the next few days until his tutor , T'ai Cho , joins him . ’ |
| 19 | I had the impression of a cautious , reflective man , who would take his work seriously and perform what was required of him to the best of his ability . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 22 | There is a portrait of him in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Meteorological Society , vol. lxxix , 1953 . |
| 23 | But it was vigorous criticism of him in the 1922 Committee by Tory back-benchers which convinced Brittan — and Mrs Thatcher — that he no longer enjoyed the confidence of the party in Parliament . |
| 24 | His regiment 's chaplain spoke of him in the warmest terms as a man of the highest principles . |
| 25 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 26 | His descendants continued to regard Richard III as the founder of the family fortunes and the fourth duke kept a portrait of him in the long gallery at Kennington . |
| 27 | She was even more aware of him in the total blackness than she had been before . |
| 28 | On the wall of his surprisingly modest flat , a street away from the stadium , is a framed picture of him in the hallowed yellow shirt of Brazil , taken before one of his 25 international appearances . |
| 29 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 30 | Very silly of him in the first place ! |