Example sentences of "[verb] to him by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the start of the further hearing , the Attorney-General , who appeared for the Crown , drew our attention to a letter addressed to him by the Clerk of the House of Commons suggesting that any reference to Hansard for the purpose of construing the Act might breach the privileges of that House . |
| 2 | He looked to be peevish , the corners of his full mouth turned down , and an irritable look in his face each time he answered some remark addressed to him by the woman at his side . |
| 3 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 4 | Immediate Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham with two sleeve-design awards presented to him by the NME in 1969 |
| 5 | He referred to the Bible that had been presented to him by the people of Memel St on July 10 at the opening of their march . |
| 6 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 7 | In the following year he published a volume of twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg , and the reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the emperor of Russia may be connected with these events . |
| 8 | He also intends to hand them a 9,000-name petition presented to him by the Cammell Laird Community Group today . |
| 9 | He is not entitled to withhold the goods until other debts owed to him by the buyer are paid . |
| 10 | Gift Aid may not be used by a donor as a means of writing of a debt or loan owed to him by the charity . |
| 11 | Incidentally , for his part , on 16 September 1982 Mr Fowler issued a writ in the High Court claiming almost £23,000 for arrears of commission owed to him by the company . |
| 12 | Shearman was also anxious to secure Pateman 's future and was conscious of the debt owed to him by the District for many years of difficult , painstaking and often discouraging work . |
| 13 | Mrs James seemed to talk to him by the hour , in the middle of the night , sometimes , he believed , and so did the children . |
| 14 | Subject to Section 310 of the Act , every Director or other officer of the Company shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against all losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto , including any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings , whether civil or criminal , in which judgement is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application under Sections 144(3) or ( 4 ) or 727 of the Act in which relief is granted to him by the Court , and no Director or other officer shall be liable for any loss , damage or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto . |
| 15 | Subject to Section 310 of the Act , every Director or other officer of the Company shall be entitled to be indemnified out of the assets of the Company against all losses or liabilities which he may sustain or incur in or about the execution of the duties of his office or otherwise in relation thereto , including any liability incurred by him in defending any proceedings , whether civil or criminal , in which judgement is given in his favour or in which he is acquitted or in connection with any application under Sections 144(3) or ( 4 ) or 727 of the Act in which relief is granted to him by the Court , and no Director or other officer shall be liable for any loss , damage or misfortune which may happen to or be incurred by the Company in the execution of the duties of his office or in relation thereto . |
| 16 | Christian went on to tell the gipsies of the award made to him by the enclosure commissioners , but he was interrupted abruptly by Boz , who said , ‘ There 's no water in Faws Grove . ’ |
| 17 | He said he had made a full examination of the submissions made to him by the council and by Mrs Kemp . |
| 18 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 19 | On that occasion he had a special reason — though an odd one — for his refusal : he was fully occupied with the duty of defence which had been entrusted to him by the king . |
| 20 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 21 | A fancy thought popped into his mind then , handed to him by the tutor of his evening class . |
| 22 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 23 | By eleven she was in Green Park Underground station with her violin , looking for Tom , lured to him by the sound of the flute reaching her as she descended the escalator . |
| 24 | Like many of the expatriate teachers here , he obviously has strong sympathies with the Chinese communist line , and that 's probably why we were n't introduced to him by the embassy . |
| 25 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 26 | The Order also laid it down that ‘ the medical superintendent shall reside in the part of the hospital assigned to him by the Management Committee , or in such other place as the Committee may approve ’ . |
| 27 | Mr. Townsend reported that he had difficulty getting any sense out of the staff at Ostend , and in the end he completed an adjustment voucher given to him by the purser on the ship . |
| 28 | Tim will be buried in the Everton shorts along with a signed Everton shirt given to him by the members of his favourite team . |
| 29 | It is suggested that the conveyance be prepared and executed in duplicate so that the husband has a record of the terms of the indemnity given to him by the wife . |
| 30 | As in unregistered conveyancing it is probably advisable that the husband keeps a duplicate or certified copy of the transfer to the wife so that he has a record of the terms of indemnity given to him by the wife . |