Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [vb past] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | His appointment to the keepership of Bewcastle brought him into conflict with William , third Lord Dacre , of Gilsland . |
| 2 | The appointment of Sukhozanet distressed him , but he served as Bariatinskii 's chief of staff in the Caucasus and was the real architect of his triumph . |
| 3 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 4 | Afterwards , the people of Haworth gave him a gold watch . |
| 5 | Anthony Hope 's inspired invention of Ruritania allowed him to move his English hero straight from modern clubland into a world of castles , kings , beautiful women , and feudal loyalties . |
| 6 | The manuscript contained a collection of writings describing the legends of Glastonbury , Avalon , Arthur , the forging of Excalibur , and even the fanciful story of how , when Christ was a boy , Joseph of Arimathea brought him to Glastonbury to buy tin and precious oils from the natives . |
| 7 | His experience of Nicholson shocked him . |
| 8 | Steve Savage of Grafton met him several times after Frankfurt . |
| 9 | As he had held the highest office of state the inhabitants of Edfu regarded him as a great man and therefore after his death honoured him as a god , making his tomb a holy place . |
| 10 | They , and Folcard , speak well of him , and William of Poitiers thought him ‘ wise , good and eloquent ’ . |
| 11 | The idea of Brazil attracted him . |
| 12 | It was said that if the Tsarists of Russia asked him to , he would even despatch his own mother . |
| 13 | Out of gratitude for his rescue of the Everqueen , the Elves of Ellyrion presented him with their finest steed , Malhandir , last of the bloodline of Korhandir , father of horses . |
| 14 | He was president of the British Mycological Society ( 1927 ) and the Association of Economic Biologists ( 1928–9 ) , and in 1938 , the University of Aberdeen awarded him an honorary LLD . |
| 15 | That evening , Johnson 's cold was worse , and the Macleods of Dunvegan cosseted him . |
| 16 | A speech following a triumph in Australia in Adelaide this year concerning his war-torn nation of Croatia earned him praise . |
| 17 | Davide skipped the list of signatories and went on : ‘ The late Don Antonio 's interest in the thought and teachings of Pythagoras led him , the family allege , into heresy , and ultimately in his last days , into dementia praecox , aggravated by the debilitating epilepsy from which he had suffered since his middle years . |
| 18 | The House of Commons accepted him as a quiet , agreeable member of some substance , not the sort of man who would ever dominate in debate , or who would lead a school of thought , but a man who with three or four others might constitute a very effective block within his party to a course or an individual of which or whom they did not approve . |
| 19 | For his pains the House of Commons put him in gaol . |
| 20 | When Karl Franz was elected Emperor after the death of his father , only Boris Todbringer of Middenland opposed him . |
| 21 | In 1932 the Honorary Society of Cymmrodorion awarded him its medal for services to Wales in the field of Celtic bibliography . |
| 22 | The experience which Anderson gained while working directly for the newly independent governments of Africa made him uniquely well placed for his second career , in the field of development co-operation . |
| 23 | Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost . |
| 24 | Thinking of Lee made him remember Uncle Walter 's medals that he still had in his pocket . |
| 25 | He was not the first to be interested in Rome ; certainly Theophrastus and perhaps Callias of Syracuse preceded him . |
| 26 | The gaekwar of Baroda made him diwan in 1873 but Naoroji left after thirteen unhappy months . |
| 27 | A survey in the crucial state of Ohio gave him a slender lead . |
| 28 | Before then , in June 1340 , Lewis of Bavaria deserted him and made peace with Philip ; in June 1341 David II returned to Scotland and renewed border raids ; James van Arteveldt began to alienate his Flemish allies ; and the French were advancing in Gascony . |
| 29 | The editor , I am also relieved to see , seems to have got out his 1992 book in advance of the election , without detriment to his political responsibilities since the burghers of Harwich elected him with a massive majority and a three per cent swing in his favour . |
| 30 | Thomson 's entree to the court of Siam enabled him to make an important record of ceremonials there . |