Example sentences of "who [vb base] him [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those who accept him as a subverter of meanings , including his own , an anti-philosopher , a disconcerting jester , gleefully overturning accepted habits of thought . |
| 2 | I am grateful for the hon. Gentleman 's support for Mr. Norman Warner , whose appointment will be widely welcomed by those who know him as an independent-minded and good man . |
| 3 | Gerald Kaufman is another who will hesitate to play the sporting card , although there are those who remember him as a midfield dynamo , eternally squabbling with the referee and being booked for ‘ violence of the tongue ’ , an offence which he is said to have invented . |
| 4 | In a free-spending secret life , Brian Courtenay , former businessman , local councillor , Tory committee chairman and master of his masonic lodge , had got through £200,000 to £300,000 — leaving the woman who wed him as a virgin 38 years earlier , almost penniless and deep in debt . |
| 5 | Buck 's other contacts include an ageing hooker whom he mistakes for a society woman ( ‘ I 'm one gorgeous chick , ’ says the ungorgeous non-chicken Sylvia Miles ) ; two weak and whining homosexual pick-ups ; and a couple of weirdos who invite him to an ‘ underground ’ party . |
| 6 | One of the men who most attracts him , Mubarak , is also one whose sexuality is most self-conscious , withdrawn , and complicated ; Mubarak 's masculinity is itself strung out across difference : he is a Sudanese African in Asia , and fighting for a people whom he does not understand and who regard him with a racist indifference ( pp. 194 — 5 ) ; he speaks perfect French , but with a Parisian urban working-class accent . |
| 7 | In the second camp are those who regard him as a true philosopher , however provocative his manner , who is restating traditional philosophical problems in a new way . |
| 8 | The secondary premise of Sean 's Show , as described by producer Katie Lander , is that ‘ he 's being controlled by scriptwriters who treat him as a sitcom character . |
| 9 | He could be photographed using the concept keyboard ( and outgrowing the available programmes ) , being squeezed half-way into a hotel loo ( as part of the Access Group ) or simply having a laugh with friends on the scheme who treat him as an equal . |