Example sentences of "those who [verb] he " in BNC.
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1 | Some press and television people — even some of those who support him — talk of his apparent decency in this election campaign as if it were a vice . |
2 | I join him in saying that the enforcement of law and order in the Province of Northern Ireland lies with Her Majesty 's Government , the Chief Constable and those who support him . |
3 | Gide at the end of his life remarked that Wilde only began to live after dark as it were , away from most of those who knew him ( So Be It , 27 ) . |
4 | A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick . |
5 | He was appointed MBE , but those who knew him thought he deserved much more . |
6 | He was only 27 , amusing , very intelligent and talented and will be deeply missed by those who knew him . |
7 | Those who knew him best saw the melancholy that went hand-in-hand with the gaiety he showed the world , and because he lived every emotion intensely , his misery went deep . |
8 | To most of those who knew him Henry was just eccentric enough to be terrifyingly normal , and even his carefully calculated bitterness , the quality of which , on the whole , he was most proud , had become , in early middle age , a Nice Dry Sense of Humour . |
9 | Accounts of his sexual prowess have been dismissed by sceptics , but those who knew him better maintain that he was able to exercise extraordinary self-control when making love , so that sex several times a day with different women was perfectly feasible . |
10 | Standing on the doorstep of the family 's Georgian mansion house , Mr Greig said : ‘ Louis brought great joy and happiness to our family and all those who knew him . |
11 | Grand though this sounds , it seems to be borne out by those who knew him about that time . |
12 | More interestingly , those who knew him well speak of his outstanding security . |
13 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
14 | Those who knew him only as a fellow undergraduate would have been still more surprised by his degree result had they known the extent of his other activities . |
15 | To do so I must read the eye-witness accounts of those who knew him . |
16 | Certain drafts of The Cocktail Party , for example , are marked with Mary Trevelyan 's handwritten alterations " as dictated by T. S. E. " From the late Forties she kept a diary of their friendship , and in this it is possible to see how bewildering Eliot could appear , even to those who knew him best . |
17 | As a person , Whitaker was frequently described by those who knew him as a great store-house of energy and enthusiasm , who could manage that rare gift of imparting such enthusiasm to others . |
18 | It was a familiar stance to those who knew him , as was the smile he now gave his son ; a dark , ironic smile that seemed both amused and calculating . |
19 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
20 | Spiers was an unassuming and kindly man , whose painstaking scholarship was greatly admired by those who knew him . |
21 | Rendel was a shy man , but confident in his views and , to those who knew him well , a shrewd , witty , and charming companion . |
22 | Those who knew him described Muspratt as energetic , public-spirited , accomplished , and generous . |
23 | Admired for his ability , diligence , and determination by those who knew him and looked on with affection by all who met him , the ready reference to ‘ Jock ’ was a happy recognition of his easy combination of public popularity , private modesty , and unfailing personal courtesy . |
24 | Connon was a hard man to startle in any case , as those who knew him well could vouch . |
25 | His health was already failing , but his death still shocked those who knew him |
26 | Those who knew him describe him as a typical Oxford don , courteous , charming , an unassuming man to whom fame came very late . |
27 | Those who knew him remember an amiable man , but not necessarily the sort of person you 'd expect to end up in the White House . |
28 | Even in Carluke , there are those who are far from convinced that Beattie , then only 19 and described by those who knew him as a train-daft ‘ big softie ’ , was capable of such a violent act . |
29 | Those who knew he was in the area recognized him immediately . |
30 | Occasionally he was referred to by those who saw him at services as ‘ the old canon ’ though he was much the youngest of the canons . |