Example sentences of "him by [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sure that her withdrawal meant nothing except that she was happy and occupied but he felt oddly lonely , as if she had deliberately left him by himself in an empty room . |
| 2 | I would n't dare leave him by himself I would n't think of leaving your dad by himself , going out gadding about |
| 3 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 4 | The Carabinieri chief had left at once with a promise of finding the man within the hour , to which he added , sotto voce , a pledge to get the truth out of him by whatever methods might be necessary . |
| 5 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 6 | In the street it was the men who roused him by their flesh and their manly , vigorous movement … |
| 7 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 8 | Isaac Ojok , a Minister of Education under the Obote regime , was sentenced to death on Dec. 18 , having been found guilty of plotting the downfall of the government of President Yoweri Museveni ; Ojok , who was arrested in 1987 , told the High Court that he joined the Holy Spirit guerrillas after being " stupefied by herbs " given to him by their leader Alice Lakwena [ for whom see p. 35493 ] . |
| 9 | He chose a dependent wife in Elsie , who further controlled him by her ailments and excessive demands . |
| 10 | Lady Macbeth succeeds in calming him by her usual tactics of scornful reductivism : ‘ When all 's done , /You look but on a stool ’ ( 67f. ) , and mockery of his cowardice : ‘ What ! quite unmanned in folly ? ’ ( 73 ) . |
| 11 | All she could do was twine her arms round him and try to anchor him by her weight against the still-shuddering rubble , so that at least their backs were protected . |
| 12 | With him by her side , she could weather any storm . |
| 13 | Apart from the measly sums she doled out from time to time , the allowance was Benedict 's by right , for it was left in trust for him by her husband . |
| 14 | She surprised him by her intensity . |
| 15 | She 'd known he would follow Didi as soon as the ring was found and the American wanted him by her side , but still his words brought such pain that for a moment Luce thought she 'd moaned aloud . |
| 16 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 17 | A JILTED boyfriend left his ex-love with something to remember him by her car , crushed into a block . |
| 18 | If these modifications are called ‘ sensations ’ , and if it is allowed that different substances can be related causally , then on this view something 's looking white to someone is his having certain sensations which are excited in him by what we would ordinarily say was the object he saw to be white . |
| 19 | Rarely , and this was one of the times , she knew she was tied to him by what seemed like a tight cord of anxiety that vibrated to his needs , never hers ; how she was afflicted by him , how he weighed her down . |
| 20 | He has nothing left but the limited interest granted to him by what may perhaps be described as the indulgence of the court under section 5(2) of the Act of 1920 . |
| 21 | If any Boozebuster victim decided he did n't actually want to go back to the office or home to his wife , Eddie would gently , but very publicly , take hold of him by what she called his ‘ wedding tackle ’ and lead him out of the pub . |
| 22 | But this had been followed by a sense of personal outrage , an emptiness and then a surge of melancholy , not strong enough to be called grief but keener than mere regret , which had surprised him by its intensity . |
| 23 | And , fundamentally , Braque 's painting is much more thoughtful and reasoned ; while the Demoiselles must have excited him by its immediacy and directness , it also posed for Braque various pictorial problems . |
| 24 | No , Miss Cassidy , if you want to find Mike , you find him by yourself . ’ |
| 25 | His full name is Anthony Joseph Foyt but , like H.G. Wells , nobody knows him by anything other than by his initials : A.J. Foyt , Jr . |
| 26 | Accordingly , it is not clear what rights are accepted by the transferee ; he may have accepted non-existing rights relying upon fraudulent information in a receipt message transmitted to him by someone pretending to be the carrier . |
| 27 | Give your name and call him by his — make it him and you . |
| 28 | ‘ On behalf of the family of my late brother , Robert , I wish to thank you for the compassion and care shown to him by your organization during his long and difficult illness . |
| 29 | He had a semi-hard-on the whole time he was bathing her , and without warning she grabbed him by it , and led him to the bath . |
| 30 | This underlines perhaps the damage done to him by his father 's death , which appears to have robbed him of the memory of many of the normal sensations . |