Example sentences of "of he [prep] the [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 | No he 's always , Fred , thou you think of him as the policeman do n't you that John Thaw . |
| 5 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 6 | He and his brother Jonna got on better now that Jonna had grown up , but George knew that his brother would always be jealous of him as the elder . |
| 7 | They know that he is playing a part ; they are amused by his attempts to amuse them ; and grow fond of him ; and thereby demonstrate their own tolerance to themselves ; and grow even fonder of him as the occasion of the demonstration . |
| 8 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 9 | A photograph of him as the Devil ( not in female disguise ) shows him poised on one foot , the other leg bent so that his whole body is tilted eccentrically . |
| 10 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 11 | It stands on the site of Wedgwood 's first factory , and has a statue of him over the porch , as well as a series of elaborate reliefs and friezes . |
| 12 | But when he put his hand lightly on her shoulder to steer her ahead of him through the door she jumped involuntarily , powerless to control the response . |
| 13 | At that moment she caught a glimpse of him through the crowd and came over . |
| 14 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 15 | I took a photo of him through the glass . |
| 16 | His tone faltered a little and he stared in front of him into the darkness . |
| 17 | She walked in front of him into the yurt . |
| 18 | He stopped walking , staring straight ahead of him into the forest . |
| 19 | She went ahead of him into the living room . |
| 20 | There were no signs of him about the place . |
| 21 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 22 | There was no sign of them in the next field , but ahead of him at the top of the hill he saw the young dog , looking black against the morning sky . |
| 23 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 24 | Standing on that base , felt as solid but as yet unexamined , he can look ahead of him at the task , which is writing , in possession of the means to carry out that task , which is his language , but suddenly that vision is revealed as fantasy . |
| 25 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 26 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 27 | How convenient that Devlin was playing piano there although there was no sign of him at the moment . |
| 28 | Eadmer has provided a striking picture of him at the meeting between the pope and William of Warelwast in 1103 , sitting silent while the royal messenger held forth and the pope replied with words which were received with enthusiasm by the bystanders as a declaration that no layman could ever be a doorway into the Lord 's sheepfold . |
| 29 | He was sort of evasive and fey and appeared relatively shy and my impression of him at the time was that he had little charisma , no star quality and not a lot of talent , and it came as a big surprise when he became as successful as he was . |
| 30 | He held his spear gun out in front of him with the safety off and used his flippers to keep facing the fish . |