Example sentences of "of him in [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked up at him ; really looked , to see him , not the picture of him in her mind . |
| 2 | Kelly had expected that Jack Butler would live up to the image she had painted of him in her mind . |
| 3 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
| 4 | She kept sight of him in her mirror — hands in pockets , bedraggled — until she turned the corner , hoping that image would be the last she would ever have of him . |
| 5 | Somewhere in the hills perhaps another Jenny walked with the beasts , no memory of him in her head . |
| 6 | She saw his face in everyone , went to sleep with thoughts of him in her mind , dreamed of him and awoke with tears on her cheeks . |
| 7 | And the scent of him in her nostrils was dark and heady . |
| 8 | A face that was poignantly familiar , as if she 'd always carried a picture of him in her heart . |
| 9 | This trio was written early in 1845 , just over two years before his death at the age of 38 ; and it is characteristic of him in its formal subtlety within apparently classical outlines , and in its skilful reconciliation of baroque with romantic . |
| 10 | You did not choose me , I chose you and appointed you to go and bear much fruit , the kind of fruit that endures and the Father will give you whatever you ask of him in my name . |
| 11 | Hold that description of him in your mind for a moment . |
| 12 | Nigel was fond enough of him in his way , but he did n't want him coming home too soon . |
| 13 | When police showed staff at Tesco 's a security video of the con-man , the girl told them : ‘ I 've got a photo of him in his Union Jack underpants . ’ |
| 14 | The magazine had first taken note of him in his Student whizz-kid incarnation , when Branson had appeared in a BBC documentary entitled Men of the Future . |
| 15 | It was in this connection that Sir John Ross [ q.v. ] speaks of him in his Memoirs and Correspondence of Admiral Lord de Saumarez ( vol ii , 1838 , p. 72 ) : ‘ Captain , afterwards Admiral , William Mitchell , an officer who had risen to the rank of rear-admiral by his good conduct , after having been flogged round the fleet for desertion . ’ |
| 16 | He learned English in order to deliver the lectures expected of him in his new post . |
| 17 | Alec wore a navy-blue romper suit — the outfit of a French workman , or indeed that of some little new-wave narcissist at a C. L. & S. screening It was the sight of him in his issued clothing that made me sense just how far he had fallen . |
| 18 | ‘ Why , it 's Rincewind the wizard , is n't it ? ’ he said in tones of delight , meanwhile filing the wizard 's description of him in his memory for leisurely vengeance . |
| 19 | Again , it is said pejoratively of him in his native land that , where Morris is the kind of natural breaker who ties in an enemy back row , Jones ‘ breaks at 3:20pm ’ . |