Example sentences of "of him [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 2 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 3 | The fact that voters think Mr Major has not campaigned impressively has apparently made little difference to their view of him as Prime Minister and party leader . |
| 4 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 5 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 6 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 7 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 8 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 9 | Ronni felt proud of him at that moment . |
| 10 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
| 11 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 12 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 13 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
| 14 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |
| 15 | Livingstone , a 34-year-old PE teacher said : ‘ Kevin and I broke away from another four runners around the halfway mark and I got the measure of him with 200 metres remaining he did n't seem to have anything left . |
| 16 | Here too he has been most thoroughly tested , and the fact that Padre Martini , the idol of the Italians , speaks of him with great admiration and has himself set him all the tests , has increased his reputation all over Italy . |
| 17 | He had to keep this manner , this pained narrative , so that any reader would feel that the account had been forced out of him with great reluctance , and that the sordid events he had yet to describe were softened by the compassion and generous charity of the writer . |
| 18 | His increasing tide of support from the populations of the Arab and wider Muslim world has puzzled Western observers , some of whom had actually believed that the Arabs might be only too glad to be rid of him with Western help . |
| 19 | No one could ever take that away from her , and she would always think of him with special affection . |
| 20 | When the subject of his father cropped up , which was not very often , Phil found that she could speak of him with true affection , keeping alive for the little boy his early memories of a loving father . |
| 21 | He did not turn his head to right or left , but looked straight in front of him with wild determination . |
| 22 | The territory was not densely settled and while emigrants to America might be loyal subjects of Charles II , in Virginia , or might be deeply distrustful of him on religious grounds , as in New England , they were not certainly united with one another . |
| 23 | If Cad had become aware of him on that occasion , as she soon would , when she became their go-between , she would have taken his attachment as her due : she counted the giving of delight as nothing for she accomplished it without intending it . |
| 24 | When after a year he moved away to another job , she felt acute distress and thought continuously of him for many months . |
| 25 | He appeals from the order of the North Avon Magistrates ' Family Proceedings Court on 23 December 1991 when they made a secure accommodation order in respect of him for three months . |
| 26 | Instead of hell , God might consign the impenitent or spiritually immature or those ignorant of him to another round of earthly life . |
| 27 | Doing his best to stay awake , he chatted to Mills until satisfied that the other was convinced of his academic credentials and then , to get rid of him before Syrian George arrived to transcribe the night 's tapes and give the game away , sent him over to see Hurley , who wanted to know if Mills , in the course of his travels in and out of Lebanon for Newsweek , would like to shoot a few pictures for the DEA . |
| 28 | The final image of him after that goal — flustered , exhausted , snarled up in the back of his own goalkeeper 's net with his studs caught in the meshing — could be the definitive fate of most of Hateley 's minders . |
| 29 | If the ‘ qualified driver ’ does not do what can be reasonably expected of him regarding these duties the learner could be said to be not under supervision . |
| 30 | which drew heavily not only on Sharp 's papers but accounts and memories of him by fellow abolitionists . |