Re: Please explain this phrase

pninja005 wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm a university student and need to work on some english text.
>
> I don't understand the meaning of the following phrase :
>
> "He was interested in his subject, as he by no means always was in
> the more fashionable ladies who were soon sitting to him by the
> score."

"...to him..." is wrong. If he is a protrait painter then it should be
"for him" if not then "with/beside/by him"


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