Example sentences of "of him [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donald is reputed to have fled to the ( Western ) Isles , and nothing is known of him during the reigns of Macbeth and Malcolm III . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Louise walked ahead of him up the path carrying the pie in a wicker basket . |
| 5 | No he 's always , Fred , thou you think of him as the policeman do n't you that John Thaw . |
| 6 | With the most supreme effort she had ever made , she thought of him as the patient . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Yorkshire Evening News spoke of him as the man whose motto was ‘ keep smiling ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I thought of him as the rhino : myopic , short-legged , thick-skinned , not too bright but with a mean temper , a surprising turn of speed over a short course , and , above all , a keen sense of smell . |
| 12 | But when Prince rocks out it 's because that 's as much a part of him as the funk strut . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | At that moment she caught a glimpse of him through the crowd and came over . |
| 17 | Shelley had been conscious of him through the corner of her eye , but had deliberately made no effort to speak to him . |
| 18 | I took a photo of him through the glass . |
| 19 | We were now face to face with this man of diverse talent — poet , novelist , song-writer , performer — after following his career for nearly two decades , reading his books , playing his records , watching him sing , reading of him through the eyes of his critics — no easy feat when one is not inhibited by astigmatism ! |
| 20 | His tone faltered a little and he stared in front of him into the darkness . |
| 21 | She walked in front of him into the yurt . |
| 22 | He stopped walking , staring straight ahead of him into the forest . |
| 23 | She went ahead of him into the living room . |
| 24 | There were no signs of him about the place . |
| 25 | With her mind reeling , Merrill walked ahead of him down the stairs and out into the windy street . |
| 26 | Not because we made a fool of him at the Reel on Monday , no no , not at all . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | An odd kind of feeling took hold of him at the thought he had a daughter . |
| 29 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 30 | However , when I think of him at the Departments of the Environment and of Education and Science , I realise that it probably was his finest hour . |