Example sentences of "those who [vb past] him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Those who knew him in the early 1970s in Florida remember a young man who beat balls at night after working a day job . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 6 | Those who denounced him as a political maverick were not surprised when , in 1924 , he joined the Labour party . |
| 7 | Those who thought him in error became the co-traitors of his personal mythology , the Bloomsbury ‘ mice ’ , who would be ‘ cleaned up ’ by the truncheons and boots of the new heroes , once the Fascist revolution had been accomplished in England . |
| 8 | At Dorchester on 20 October 1714 , the day of George 's coronation , it was the decision of the Dissenters to burn an effigy of the Pretender that provoked the wrath of the Jacobites , who armed with clubs proceeded to set about " those who carried him about the Town … |
| 9 | He rose from the ridiculous chair and made his way carefully down the crowded row , responding politely to those who greeted him by name , noting with carefully repressed surprise that two of the women who gave him private little smiles were seated next to each other , friends who had no idea they had something more than friendship in common . |
| 10 | Those who briefed him on the successful Los Angeles bid — Manchester retains the same American consultants — reported similar problems . |
| 11 | MacArthur impressed most of those who met him through his strengths of character , commitment and tenacity . |
| 12 | Thomas Poole the younger had been born into comfortable West Somerset obscurity in 1765 , and gave little sign to those who met him for the first time of the great gifts of character and intellect which he possessed . |
| 13 | In turn , many of the Aborigines Gould encountered , and especially those who accompanied him as guides on his collecting expeditions , grew to admire him and to recognise a kindred spirit in the eccentric and enthusiastic white man . |
| 14 | Those who remembered him with his barrow recalled a cheerful , toothy smile , an infectious , confidence-inspiring laugh . |
| 15 | To those who encountered him at this time , he seemed to grow more thick-set and muscular , endowed already with a public presence . |
| 16 | Those who dismissed him as a third-rate actor failed to recognize his ability as a political campaigner . |
| 17 | He trusted the captains of his ships , he trusted his trading partners in the East , in the Indian Ocean , over the Atlantic , around the African coast ; his clerks , his associates in Liverpool , his bank , his builders , his carpenters , those who supplied him with his furniture and his clothes — Mr Crump moved in a world of total trust . |
| 18 | So the literary set , many of them agnostic or hostile to religion , ranged behind Lord David , while those who had already committed themselves , together with those who esteemed him as a scholar , voted for E. K. Chambers . |