Example sentences of "of him [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After my first sight of him that sunny autumn morning in the gallery of the courtyard in the Palacio de Anaya , his face haunted me all day , and I dreamt of him during the night — a long , ecstatic dream of such acute sensual pleasure I woke up aching and exhausted by too much bliss . |
| 2 | She pulled away and walked ahead of him along the corridor , hearing the measured tread of his footsteps as he followed , and to her over-sensitive ears they seemed to match exactly the pounding , thudding beat of her heart . |
| 3 | Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wicker basket . |
| 4 | The three of them had come back down the tunnel to the entrance , with the man pushing Nona in front of him as a hostage . |
| 5 | They do not think of him as a sacrifice offered to God . |
| 6 | Although it is impossible to think of him as a Londoner , this move began a lifelong association with the capital to which he returned every year for a few months , even after he had given up all thoughts of making it his permanent home . |
| 7 | The shopkeeper who berated the regime for its brylcream policy accepted its definition of him as a capitalist , an entrepreneur : that did not seem justified by any sensible criterion of capitalism . |
| 8 | As you will have guessed , my attitude towards him changed , so that when the frank speaking happened that day it was in the context of love and acceptance of him as a person . |
| 9 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 10 | And Charlotte was suddenly aware of him as a person , and by no means an unintelligent person , either ; but above all a vital presence , to be ignored only at the general peril . |
| 11 | The picture of him as a gorilla was necessary on the leaflet because the words make no overt mention of his race . |
| 12 | She told Harriet that she often met King Edward VII in her dreams and thought of him as a kind of uncle . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll always think of him as a friend , ’ she thought . |
| 14 | Hitherto , she 'd thought of him as a friend ; a kind friend , far above her station . |
| 15 | As John struggles to find another plectrum , I mention that I 'd always thought of him as a fingerstyle player … |
| 16 | I thought of him as a patrician in the Roman tradition , cultured , erudite , civilized , governed above all by his sense of duty . |
| 17 | If on the other hand he also had some burning when he passed a motion , his feet burned at night and his eyes were dry and burning , then it is clear that the sensation of ‘ burning ’ runs throughout many areas of the person 's body and so becomes characteristic of him as a whole , that is , it becomes General . |
| 18 | He is tickled by the idea they all have of him as a fool and a hypocrite and a mass-murderer . |
| 19 | They evidently thought of him as a foreigner . |
| 20 | ‘ We invited him to appear and talk us through some film of him as a boy , and he did n't know she was going to be there . |
| 21 | Hard to think of him as a boy . |
| 22 | It was as if he were preparing for the day he would be a big man himself in this town and wanted everyone on his side , wanted them all to think of him as a customer . |
| 23 | His pattern of personal leadership , as revealed by the Cabinet committees he chose to chair himself , reinforces the standard interpretation of him as a man more at ease with overseas than with domestic policy . |
| 24 | The public were urged to think of him as a man whose ‘ gibes and sneers in Nazi propaganda broadcasts against Britain during the war disgusted the British people . ’ |
| 25 | The exchange between them had been painful , but there was something so honest and open about it that she felt freed for the first time in months from her painful awareness of him as a man . |
| 26 | I do n't like him at all , and if he was going to be the next Frank Lloyd Wright , I could n't care less , and it would n't change my opinion of him as a man , which is that he 's — ’ |
| 27 | To her mind , Travis McKenna was definitely Mr Wrong … and yet today had brought a shivering awareness of him as a man — and herself as a woman . |
| 28 | Dalgliesh thought of him as a type of police officer less common than formerly but still not rare ; the conscientious and incorruptible detective of limited imagination and somewhat greater intelligence who had never supposed that the evil of the world should be condoned because it was frequently inexplicable and its perpetrators unfortunate . |
| 29 | She remembered him laughing kindly as he said this , because he liked Joe , he liked Joe very much ; but at the same time he felt guilty about him , because in a way he had made use of him as a sort of cover . |
| 30 | She liked him , never thought of him as a boyfriend , he was too comfortable . |