Example sentences of "[adv] endear he to " in BNC.
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| 1 | On his return to Scotland , Souness chose to live in Edinburgh , a decision that has not endeared him to some of the more primitive members of the Glasgow community . |
| 2 | Although he is happy with his lifestyle and a wages and bonuses package which earns him £30,000 a week , Walker 's evasive attitude and reluctance to project himself through the media has not endeared him to the locals . |
| 3 | Mr Cheniere , the school 's headmaster , is a practising Catholic of Martinican origin , a freemason whose authoritarian methods do not endear him to his students . |
| 4 | One of the problems perceived in Dr Ting 's autocratic management was that it does not endear him to the more easy-going American physicists ; and there were few large American institutions taking part in L* . |
| 5 | Eustace Loder , the prime mover of the Stewards ' objection , was said to have a personal grudge against Craganour 's owner Ismay , who in any case was far from universally popular : the son of the founder of the White Star Line , whose greatest ship the Titanic had gone down on its maiden voyage in 1912 with the loss of 1,517 lives , and himself a passenger on that fateful voyage , his survival did not endear him to the public . |
| 6 | The former qualities did not endear him to those in the Council who wanted change , and a replacement of the tramways by buses . |
| 7 | This lack of the courtier 's innate instinct for self-preservation — a characteristic he shared with his father — did not endear him to the aristocracy , and probably lost him the appointments he needed . |
| 8 | This did not endear him to his colleagues : ‘ At that time , women were automatically shaved , given enemas , had their membranes ruptured and were given foetal monitoring . |
| 9 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 10 | Deng 's developmentalist stance had not always endeared him to Mao , but had aligned him to some extent with Premier Zhou , who also saw overly radical , leftist policies as a threat to China 's economic and social development . |
| 11 | He was dull , untidy in his books , arrogant and morose , with slovenly characteristics that hardly endeared him to his perfectionist mother . |
| 12 | He is a big man , which in itself does n't endear him to Vic , with bushy sideboards and RAF-style moustache . |
| 13 | He built a motorbike out of scrap bits he found on the tip , which did n't endear him to Grandma , or anyone else . |
| 14 | Uxbridge had eloped with the wife of the Duke 's younger brother , which did not precisely endear him to the Duke . |
| 15 | His comments will certainly endear him to his hon. Friends . |