Sentence examples for preferred to him from inspiring English sources

The word "like" is used where "such as" is required (in one weird passage, "like of" is used rather than "as of"); "he" and "they" are preferred to "him" and "them".

First-choice right back at the time was Alf Ramsey, and even when Ramsey left to manage Ipswich Town the old-stager Charlie Withers was preferred to him.

But, by the close of that decade, he had only played seven Tests, as the likes of Matthew Elliott, Greg Blewett, Michael Slater and Mark Taylor were preferred to him by the Australian selectors.

Each of the girls he prefers is paired with someone she prefers to him.

Yet the organization still preferred to send him down, rather than install him as the right-handed half of a platoon with the left-handed-hitting Reddick.

Françoise married him in 1652 and later said of this relationship: "I preferred to marry him rather than a convent".

Ray Charles, however, preferred to call him Brains.

Others preferred to describe him as the MESSIah.

During the war and interregnum, royalists and peacemakers generally preferred to forget him.

Some bankers preferred to call him Joe (from Jose), or APU (Augusto Pinochet Ugarte).

Ketchel could have knocked Papke out any moment but he preferred to see him suffer.