Example sentences of "of him [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had brought with him reading that was expected of him during this vacation , works on sociology and on linguistics and some where these two studies converged , but these were not the sort of books one much wanted to read under the hot sun and the influence of wine . |
| 2 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 3 | Funny old tramp , the leaves fall of him without those , they get stalkier and stalkier as time goes on |
| 4 | The fact that voters think Mr Major has not campaigned impressively has apparently made little difference to their view of him as Prime Minister and party leader . |
| 5 | ‘ Everyone seemed to think Benjamin was a virgin , but I never thought of him as that , but that it was the first time he was making love to a woman who was old enough to be his mother , and who was his mother 's friend . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd never thought of him as that sort of man . |
| 7 | She says she thinks of him as one of her own children . |
| 8 | It is he — another person , she told herself , I must think of him as another person . |
| 9 | And if he involved himself in military activity , he would simply have been discharging the martial duty expected of him as royal liberator . |
| 10 | This rather cooled their high spirits , because Missenden 's failure to do what was required of him about some case of ecclesiastical preferment was criticized . |
| 11 | To this day , Hardy , himself having achieved the double of classical and popular success as an actor , speaks of him at that time with unaffected adulation . |
| 12 | Ronni felt proud of him at that moment . |
| 13 | The little cunt who made me parade in front of him at eight thirty in the morning so I erm |
| 14 | Hoomey could n't think of him at four pounds . |
| 15 | ‘ Ziggy Stardust ’ had just been released in England and David was doing well with it , or so I 'm told , but no-one had heard of him at all in America , so Tony DeFries gave us each a box of 25 albums to just give to whoever we thought was cool , which actually turned out to be a pretty good idea . |
| 16 | That 's what I think of him when I think of him at all . ’ |
| 17 | And she had wondered how it was she was speaking of him at all . |
| 18 | Hank , when Mrs Stych thought of him at all , always gave her a headache . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't like the look of him at all , ’ said Angalo . |
| 20 | When we at last learned his name , we had not heard of him at all . |
| 21 | Did n't you think of Him at all ? ’ |
| 22 | What he thought of Canon Wheeler , if he thought of him at all , he had never , in his gentlemanly fashion , revealed to anyone . |
| 23 | No news of him at all ? |
| 24 | Once when he swung across the road to frighten a cyclist by passing within inches of him at forty miles an hour I expected the Feldwebel or the officer to be angry . |
| 25 | We have another description of him at this date from a diarist who happened to meet him . |
| 26 | So got rid of him at last , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , and went in to the glass . |
| 27 | He would be rid of him at last . |
| 28 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
| 29 | His skin was so close that she barely had to move to touch him , taste him — to know all of him with all of her . |
| 30 | As he was handed back into the Tolbooth , there was a bustle at another door — a man 's face , focusing suddenly into familiarity : James , a patch of high colour on each cheekbone , red on white , his hair more grizzled than Cameron remembered , looking ahead of him with wide eyes . |