Example sentences of "him by his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Give your name and call him by his — make it him and you . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Scouse would give you time and date according to information supplied to him by his previous customers . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 12 | A velvet court dress made for him by his fellow tailors is to go on show at the Croydon Museum . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ( 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 . ) |
| 15 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |
| 16 | The board was supposed to have been given to him by his uncle , an Hawaiian prince . |
| 17 | It was the time when he had to choose between , on the one hand , learning to limit the purely sensual pleasures offered him by his physical evolution , and on the other hand , accepting that failure to do so would either destroy or delay the enjoyment of the much broader and deeper pleasures which were becoming available to him by virtue of the developing emotions within him . |
| 18 | Mackay 's financial situation worsened following the war , especially after the runaway inflation wiped out the value of the annuity he had purchased with money left him by his mother , so that in his later years he was completely dependent on the sale of his books , which never regained their earlier popularity . |
| 19 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 20 | They swam rivers to avoid heavily guarded bridges and doubtless George used the fieldcraft taught to him by his father Sam to live off the land . |
| 21 | In the dark mourning robes left to him by his grandfather , he was as exotic as Valentino , as dangerous as a black prince of the desert . |
| 22 | But I secured him by his stump and went on . |
| 23 | Dustin seemed to behave towards fame with a certain cynicism , rather like Ben Braddock at the party thrown for him by his parents to celebrate his graduation . |
| 24 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 25 | Perhaps you know him by his shoes ? |
| 26 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |
| 27 | M E Tralbaut recounts the story of Vincent 's actual departure from Belgium 's black country , as told to him by his old friend Louis Piérard , who knew the widow of the pastor of Warquignies well . |
| 28 | One typical story recalled the fate of the apocryphal Lupescu , who was the alleged inventor of several scurrilous stories with the Comrade as their butt and who was supposed to supplement his income with hard currency or Western cigarettes given him by his appreciative audience . |
| 29 | At the time of his ascension , how does Jesus respond to the question put to him by his disciples , ‘ Lord , will you at this time give the Kingdom back to Israel ? ’ |
| 30 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |