Example sentences of "him by his " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I used to call him by his real name Coy Luther and he got real mad . ’ |
| 32 | Pontypridd captain STEELE LEWIS had a three-week suspension imposed on him by his club following what was described as ‘ an internal incident ’ . |
| 33 | One of his sons , Noel , a retired university lecturer , decided to sort out and study all the documents , including the stories which had been confided to him by his father , to whom he was very close . |
| 34 | But Burton 's radicalism was soon overtaken by the inevitable favours bought him by his talents . |
| 35 | The tradition was carried on after him by his son , Archibald Alexander Hodge ( 1823–86 ) , and Benjamin B. Warfield ( 1851 — 1921 ) . |
| 36 | She liked his quiet manner , his bookish looks , his thin hands emerging from the voluminous sleeves of jerseys knitted for him by his mother who plainly , in her mind 's eye , saw him as a strapping youth of six foot two . |
| 37 | He deceives those near to him by his professions of love — ‘ A man he is of honesty and trust ’ , Othello says ( 1 . |
| 38 | The count alleged that the seneschal 's lieutenant entered the hall of the castle at Vic-de-Bigorre with the dean of Le Puy , and treated him in an inexcusably unmannerly fashion by seizing him by his clothing and expelling him and his household familia from the place . |
| 39 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 40 | It 's been forced on him by his doctor . |
| 41 | He only knew him by his codeword , Seabird . |
| 42 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |
| 43 | Verses 8–10 : if a man died childless , his brother was duty bound to raise heirs to him by his widow ( set out as the Levirate law , Deuteronomy 25:5 ) . |
| 44 | He still had the jewelled dagger hidden in a barrel on board his ketch , and he had put the sack with the money belt in an old sea chest left to him by his father . |
| 45 | One lunchtime Minton , wearing what seemed to her a hideous sweater knitted for him by his mother , sat opposite her in the school restaurant . |
| 46 | He wrote with her pen and kept the little envelope filled with notes she used to write him by his side . |
| 47 | ‘ The great landowner seems to reign there like the lion in his forest , driving from him by his roars all who seek to approach his presence . ’ |
| 48 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 49 | he deserves a happier memorial than the one afforded him by his last few crazy hours on the dance-floor and the street . |
| 50 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 51 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 52 | ‘ There 's no weight to isolated acts of self-aggrandizing heroism in a decaying society , ’ said a man who was generally nice , and who bore on his forehead the triangular scar of a marble paperweight that had been thrown at him by his best friend , a Tory , for a sentence like that . |
| 53 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 54 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 55 | People in the village knew him by his dourness , by the distance he put between himself and them . |
| 56 | And if your friend , the bridegroom , or the bride 's father-in-law or another older man is usually called ‘ Al ’ , on this occasion should you be calling him by his full name , ( and if so , is that short for Albert , Alfred , Ali , Alexis , Alexander , or , even more formally , Mr Smith ? |
| 57 | If an explosion occurs owing to the escape of gas , it does not seem to have been suggested that the defences of common benefit or consent of the plaintiff would be available to the defendants , possibly because the plaintiff has no choice as to the source of his supply of gas , whereas in other cases he can decide for himself whether he will accept the arrangement offered to him by his landlord . |
| 58 | He had removed the jacket of his white linen suit but the sense of decorum bred into him by his aristocratic Virginian upbringing compelled him to retain its matching vest and a cravat of maroon silk held in place with a small diamond pin . |
| 59 | But the king grabbed him by his horns , beat him and thumped him , and said , " Go back to that boy and keep pestering him . |
| 60 | Furthermore , the donations of King Ecgberht and the reeve , Ealdhun , to Canterbury were revoked by Offa ( CS 293 : S 155 ; cf. , CS 319 , 320 : S 1259 and CS 332 : S 1264 ) , who objected to the fact that his minister ( thegn ) had presumed to give land allotted to him by his lord into the power of another without his witness ( CS 293 : S 155 ) . |