Example sentences of "him by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as he moved from boyhood to early youth , tales of heroism and daring-do accumulated , luring him by their unreal charms . |
| 2 | In the street it was the men who roused him by their flesh and their manly , vigorous movement … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | He chose a dependent wife in Elsie , who further controlled him by her ailments and excessive demands . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | With him by her side , she could weather any storm . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She surprised him by her intensity . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He said she was jealous that her husband had taken another girlfriend and was encouraged to split from him by her parents . |
| 13 | A JILTED boyfriend left his ex-love with something to remember him by her car , crushed into a block . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Scouse would give you time and date according to information supplied to him by his previous customers . |
| 19 | There he found fragments uniting the personal and anthropological , whether in the ‘ memory and desire ’ of the Thomsonian buried corpse about which he had read at Harvard , in the Frazerian Mayne Reid deserts of his childhood , in Kipling 's metempsychosis , Rostand , or Jacobean dramatists , or a passage recommended to him by his Harvard Sanskrit teacher , Charles Lanman , who had laid special emphasis on the advice which the Hindu ‘ Lord of Creatures ’ gives to men in thunder . |
| 20 | There was space then for her free-fall to be guided , even as Lucifer 's had been guided , across the vast vacuity , down to a home prepared for him by his enemy . |
| 21 | Callinicos appears to think that he can detect ‘ aesthetic merit ’ from the position given to him by his politics ; politics , writ large , as embodying an ethics and a philosophy , is the active force . |
| 22 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 23 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 24 | Oliver Hill , its architect , was a chameleon who could perform miracles and build in whatever style was asked of him by his upper-class clients , some of whom were startlingly ‘ progressive ’ . |
| 25 | Rough hands gripped him by his crotch and the back of his neck , holding him aloft like a defenceless struggling insect tipped on to its back . |
| 26 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 27 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 28 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 29 | ( Wilde was introduced to him by his mother , a librarian , who could n't possibly have anticipated the effect and , apparently , never regretted it even in the seemingly hopeless pre-Smith days of unemployment and complete lack of desire to become gainfully employed . ) |
| 30 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |