Example sentences of "him [prep] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was subsequently alone with him for much of a two-hour period when his condition deteriorated and one consultant thought he was going to die , the court heard . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Lucie forced a penny into his soft , sleeping palm ; dumped his shearing tools in his lap , and pulled his cap down over his face in the hope that nobody would recognize him for one of the players . |
| 4 | diagram for for that erm mark five out there could you ask him for one of them ? |
| 5 | I 'll get him for both of us . ’ |
| 6 | We begin to ask him for more of his love to love him more . |
| 7 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 8 | He wondered what he had done to make his parents want to get rid of him for most of the summer holidays . |
| 9 | In 1988 he moved again , this time to Lotus , but he had to be content with watching the McLaren duo of Alain Prost and fellow Brazilian Ayrton Senna in front of him for most of the season . |
| 10 | The fact that his father behaved towards him for most of the time with mild , if somewhat unthinking kindness , did not rule out this possibility which is present at some time or other in most children 's minds : after all , if you were going to kill someone you would naturally go on being kind to them for the time being , giving them money for sweets and generally keeping up appearances . |
| 11 | Two men have stood by him for most of his career — Homer Scott and Ian Ferguson — and it was heartening for Homer that Pat was able to ride Glitter Grey to victory in the Governors Cup at Down Royal . |
| 12 | Keith was with him through all of it and I think it made them very close , ’ adds Rigby . |
| 13 | And Shaunagh was there to help him through one of the most embarrassing moments of his life . |
| 14 | Was n't it about time she put him through some of the agony he 'd caused her ? |
| 15 | Maybe we 'll be able to count him as one of our successes yet . ’ |
| 16 | Aware that Brando had enjoyed his 1979 comedy The In-Laws , Bergman reworked the same basic plot around the star 's mythic bulk , casting him as the manipulative mafia don Carmine Sabatini , who gives Broderick the job of minding a komodo dragon , and adopts him as one of the ‘ family ’ . |
| 17 | Although Joe Nichols in the New York Times wrote that ‘ Lester Piggott rode with the competence that has stamped him as one of the world 's great riders , and brought his mount home in time ’ , the Washington Post thought that ‘ there could be fault-finding with Piggott 's tactics in tucking in on the rail and not asking his mount for more of the effort he had in reserve ’ . |
| 18 | After Labour won the 1945 election , Burke accompanied Attlee to the Potsdam Conference ; and later that year the Prime Minister named him as one of his private secretaries . |
| 19 | Shaw joined the company in 1944 and was still only 17 when Ashton used him as one of the three male dancers in Symphonic Variations . |
| 20 | On the few occasions that he had gone down to The priory with the lad , his parents had treated him as one of the family . |
| 21 | He was , indeed , a model for more than them : the French kings had also inherited his throne , and looked back to him as one of their greatest predecessors . |
| 22 | The 55-year-old 's icy calm distinguished him as one of General Norman Schwarzkopf 's closest aides during the Gulf War . |
| 23 | The blurb for Barry Newcombe 's book , the story of England 's climb to respectability , describes him as one of the game 's ‘ sanest analysts ’ . |
| 24 | Out of a crop of precocious back division talent to whom Scotland will looking in the not-too-distant future , Gregor Peter John Townsend , who will not be 19 until April 26 , presents an amalgam of skill , pace and learning capacity that mark him as one of specially exciting potential . |
| 25 | Born in St Petersburg , Iacovleff was associated with Bakst and Diaghilev before moving to Paris where such was his repute that Sargent described him as one of the greatest living draftsmen . |
| 26 | Furthermore , he had always related to her on an intellectual level , unlike the majority of men she knew who saw her as just another pretty face ( to try a line on ) , and although she and Whitlock never mixed socially , only ever meeting up at work , she had come to regard him as one of her few real friends . |
| 27 | He wrote a preface to David Jones 's In Parenthesis in which he noted the fact that Jones was of the same generation as Pound and himself ; he also wrote a preface to Lewis 's One-Way Song and described him as one of those who had been falsely labelled by " the Messenmensch " as a fascist but nevertheless chose " to walk alone " . |
| 28 | The policewoman came back , with a man ; Alice recognised him as one of those from the other night . |
| 29 | Susan Einzig regarded him as one of the brightest jewels in a smart set . |
| 30 | He persuaded the CPP to nominate him as one of the two candidates for the Accra double-member constituency . |