Example sentences of "of [noun prp] [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lemos resigned on March 25 , allegedly in indignation at the failure of Barco to defend him against opposition charges . |
| 2 | His appointment to the keepership of Bewcastle brought him into conflict with William , third Lord Dacre , of Gilsland . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Master of Magdalene asked him whether he found it uncomfortable to wear the received garments of a bishop . |
| 5 | Afterwards , the people of Haworth gave him a gold watch . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His experience of Nicholson shocked him . |
| 9 | Steve Savage of Grafton met him several times after Frankfurt . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They , and Folcard , speak well of him , and William of Poitiers thought him ‘ wise , good and eloquent ’ . |
| 12 | The idea of Brazil attracted him . |
| 13 | It was said that if the Tsarists of Russia asked him to , he would even despatch his own mother . |
| 14 | It transpires that the new tenant is Pris , one of the androids Deckard is hunting ( though John does not realise this until later in the story ) The presence of Pris excites him a great deal . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That evening , Johnson 's cold was worse , and the Macleods of Dunvegan cosseted him . |
| 18 | A speech following a triumph in Australia in Adelaide this year concerning his war-torn nation of Croatia earned him praise . |
| 19 | Mr. Ross also challenges the refusal by the board of Lautro to permit him , or Winchester to appeal against the intervention notice to the appeal tribunal constituted under Lautro 's rules . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | For his pains the House of Commons put him in gaol . |
| 23 | His election on three separate occasions as MP for Middlesex in 1768–69 , and the repeated refusals of the House of Commons to admit him as a member , did much to stimulate in London the current of political radicalism which was later to run so strongly there . |
| 24 | When Karl Franz was elected Emperor after the death of his father , only Boris Todbringer of Middenland opposed him . |
| 25 | In contrast only one surviving statue of Hadrian shows him dressed in a toga . |
| 26 | In 1932 the Honorary Society of Cymmrodorion awarded him its medal for services to Wales in the field of Celtic bibliography . |
| 27 | Moral education in the Catholic School is intimately connected to Religious Education because fundamental to both is the personal call of Jesus to follow him as Lord and Saviour in the everyday events of life . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost . |
| 30 | It was stupid of Lee to let him escape . |