Example sentences of "of [pers pn] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wondered if he would see at once that something had happened to make my need of him as great as his had been of me when he last saw me . |
| 2 | I never got to hear Arthur Calder-Marshall talking about Patrick Hamilton , but just a few days later I was able to read Patrick Hamilton about Arthur Calder-Marshall , in a letter to Hamilton 's brother in 1951 about a radio talk Calder-Marshall had given : ‘ Arthur C-M 's description of me as he first knew me ( at the Wells Hotel , Hampstead ) makes very amusing reading . |
| 3 | But it was clear that he wanted to make as much money out of me as he could . |
| 4 | Sometimes Maisie went to him instead of me because he was the one who was there and I was the one who went away . |
| 5 | But he 's not prepared to … take advantage of me because he knows that I 'm inexperienced and that it would be too important to me . |
| 6 | He asked me to resign , but I think that was just an excuse to get rid of me because he 's jealous of my work ! ’ she finished baldly , quite unable to dress up the truth . |
| 7 | Anyway , that was all he wanted of me though he offered marriage . |
| 8 | Even though they may be working together on contributory problems in the marriage , he still needs to recognise how she hung on for both of them while he was out having a good time . |
| 9 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 10 | But if the master has made him a bailee of them so as to vest him with exclusive possession , then , like any other bailee of this sort , he has it ; so , too , if goods are delivered to him to hand to his master , he has possession of them until he has done some act which transfers it to his master , e.g . |
| 11 | Picasso 's extensive series of variations on Las Meninas was produced in 1957 , but even if Gironella knew of them when he himself began to work on versions of Velázquez ( which is highly unlikely , as Picasso 's paintings were not exhibited until 1959 ) ; even though their interest in the art of the past at that point in their careers was for both , perhaps , a rejection of abstraction ; and even though both can in some way be defined as exiled from their Spanish roots , as outsiders looking in — — yet the results are widely divergent . |
| 12 | Mr Justice Maule pointed out the absurdity of them when he came to his summing-up at the end of a trial for bigamy : |
| 13 | What happened to the rest of them when he left them on Epping 's still rustic station , at the extreme eastern end of the Central Line , was their business or misfortune . |
| 14 | In Isaiah 63:10 , 11 we read that the people on whom God had set his love ‘ rebelled and grieved his Holy Spirit ’ , although he had put his Holy Spirit in the midst of them when he rescued them from Egypt . |
| 15 | He was courted by a number of them when he returned to South Africa this Christmas , his first visit home since he was exiled along with his parents as a youngster . |
| 16 | Our son was in one of them when he was at school . |
| 17 | ‘ Mr. Ross goes lieutenant into one of them if he can pass his examination on the morrow ’ , Keith informed his sister , and it would seem that the examining board were duly impressed by their admiral 's anxiety , for they took a chance on this doubtful candidate . |
| 18 | Why all of them if he 's searching for one slave ? ’ |
| 19 | His ‘ ardour … for his books of chivalry ’ ( OMF iii 5 ) is described in Cervantes ' first chapter : ‘ so great was his curiosity and infatuation in this regard that he even sold many acres of tillable land in order to be able to buy and read the books that he loved , and he would carry home with him as many of them as he could obtain . ’ |
| 20 | Willie caught sight of them as he turned the corner . |
| 21 | Rakovsky was thinking of them as he sat there in the borrowed office in Berlin . |
| 22 | He bustled in one day , rubbing his hands , a fashion of his when he had something unpleasant on his mind . |
| 23 | I could see that predatory gleam in those dark eyes of his when he looked at you . ’ |
| 24 | He rose abruptly , and began to walk the wide chamber with his wine cup dangled lightly between his fingers , a habit of his when he was thoughtful . |
| 25 | He 'll probably take no notice of you because he 'll be trying to upset me . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I think , ’ she added , ‘ that your father wants to be as proud of you as he was of your moth-er . |
| 27 | My sister — the one just younger than me — and I used to share all the jobs in the house — if she washed up one day I did the drying up and so on , but when my grandad came to live with us , he thought the world of her so he did all her jobs , and she 'd come to me and taunt me , and that used to incense me . |
| 28 | ‘ D' you mean to say , Elaine , that you took more notice of her than he did ? ’ |
| 29 | Now he thinks more of her than he did of these , when they were babies . |
| 30 | He 's not taking any more notice of her than he is of me . |