Example sentences of "him a most [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I found him a most agreeable man and we seemed to get along well from the start .
2 I found him a most agreeable man , a sharp observer , and the possessor of intellectual attainments of no mean order .
3 But even so , as Ven escorted her inside to where he had a table booked , she felt him a most potent force .
4 I have no doubt that a major influence in forcing him to make what must have been for him a most distasteful and humiliating manoeuvre , was a letter sent by a number of Durham county councillors to a local newspaper in reply to an article penned by Mr Fallon in the previous week 's issue .
5 He has always looked a chaser and his unexpected achievements over flimsy flights of timber make him a most exciting prospect .
6 Basil 's sensitive appreciation of Art Education in the lives of children , their teachers and in fact all people , made him a most exceptional person in the Education Department of the West Riding County Council of Yorkshire in the 1960s .
7 She thought him a most responsible and sensitive young man and then reflected that for all his fooling around , it probably masked his unhappiness and disappointment over his ‘ father ’ .
8 The Oxford public orator of 1960 commended him for all he had done in persuading Oxford undergraduates to a reasonable faith and called him a most penetrating interpreter of the New Testament and a very powerful bulwark of Mother Church .
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