Example sentences of "who [vb past] him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the beginning of a family association with the School which was to last until 1942 , when his son , who succeeded him in 1898 , retired . |
| 2 | Edward III always recognised the importance of noble support in his wars , and , both in his reign and in that of his grandson , Richard II who succeeded him in 1377 , the nobility led from the front . |
| 3 | Such behaviour would not normally be a recommendation to the High Court bench , but it was less of a problem for the Labour Lord Chancellor who appointed him in 1975 . |
| 4 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 5 | ‘ It was your people who got him into this , ’ he persisted . |
| 6 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 7 | Coleridge awoke , he said , retaining ‘ a distinct recollection of the whole ’ , and was eagerly committing the poem to writing when he was called out by a person on business from Porlock who detained him for more than an hour . |
| 8 | After having a challenge for the domestic middleweight title demolished by Bunny Sterling who stopped him in eight rounds , Hope once more returned with a vigorous sequence of wins culminating in a challenge for the world light-middleweight title held by Eckhard Dagge in Berlin . |
| 9 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 10 | Stephane Grappelli , the renowned jazz violinist , employed English agents who booked him for certain concerts . |
| 11 | A message from Mr Dubcek to the crowd in Prague , read by the economist who advised him in 1968 , called for the resignation of all those in the present leadership who were resposible for the invasion and its aftermath . |
| 12 | A message from Mr Dubcek to the crowd in Prague , read by the economist who advised him in 1968 , called for the resignation of all those in the present leadership who were resposible for the invasion and its aftermath . |
| 13 | But the Jews did not receive him , yet to all That 's Jews and Gentiles , who received him to those who believed in his name he gave the right to become the children of God . |
| 14 | Last season he was trained by Oliver Sherwood , who turned him into one of the best novice hurdlers and now Henrietta Knight will be attempting to do the same over fences . |
| 15 | Whilst driving through London , Stephen Waldorf was shot several times and severely injured by officers who confused him with another person whom they said they were seeking to capture . |
| 16 | Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels . |
| 17 | Dr Greenaway was therefore not only a very distinguished President but he and his wife Marion , who predeceased him in 1981 , were extremely popular with the deaf community . |
| 18 | He found an holistic therapist who taught him about dietary reform , meditation and visualisation . |
| 19 | Of his Quaker relatives who followed him in this course , S. P. Tregelles [ q.v. ] and the banker Samuel Lloyd were the most prominent . |
| 20 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 21 | Bob 's abilities were recognised by the Southern League authorities , who selected him for one of their inter-League games during 1912–13 and he was awarded a Benefit by the Palace in 1914–15 , along with his half-back colleagues , Jimmy Hughes and Harry Hanger . |
| 22 | It is from Boswell that we learn of the height of nun Can , Raasay 's peak on which he danced a Highland reel with old Malcolm Macleod who called him between five and six in the morning to go walking . |
| 23 | Ximena , who survived him by fifteen years , held Valencia for only short time . |
| 24 | The margin between them by the end of the campaign was considerably larger than the gap between Mrs Thatcher and the Labour leader five years ago : 1987Apr 7–8Now Thatcher/Major would make best Prime Minister 42 39 47 Kinnock would 31 28 21 Conservative advantage+11+11+26 Asked who they thought would ‘ make the worst Prime Minister ’ , 51 per cent of Gallup 's sample named Mr Kinnock — seven percentage points higher than the number who named him in 1987 . |
| 25 | I am very sensitive to my hon. Friend 's reference to Warren Hastings ' because it was Edmund Burke , a kinsman of mine , who prosecuted him over that length of time . |
| 26 | Peter Yeo , who knew him in this over-candid , over-emphatic mood , decided to prod gently . |
| 27 | Everyone who knew him in those schooldays — men and women alike — speak with affection of him : stories tumble out like clothes spilling out of a split suitcase — Richard peeing out of the train window as the engine roared by the station platform , Richard taking a girl up on to a mountain and scaring her to flight at his howl as a passionate hand landed on one of his more angry boils , Rich , reeking of beer , rolling into school and being sent home . |
| 28 | Marcus , thus present occasionally at Jack 's house , where he evidently felt his visits to be a matter of duty , inevitably encountered the women , who treated him with suitable respect and awe , and Jack , who was nervously affable , and even on two occasions Gildas to whom he nodded politely . |
| 29 | He was a form of Guru to the airmen who frequently took their problems to him , rather like the simple Arab in the desert who treated him as some form of God . |
| 30 | But before doing so , he contacted the solicitors who represented him in 1981 and they arranged for the crown court appearance . |