Example sentences of "[pers pn] by [verb] [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until he knew deep in his belly that he would only ever excel and humble that damnable ‘ brother ’ of his by making himself into a devotee of Lexandro 's existence , akin to a cultist , a protector and preserver of d'Arquebus in his ostentatious recklessness . |
| 2 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 3 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 4 | In one such festival , her husband shows his love for her by presenting her with a new dress and himself attending to her hairdo and make up . |
| 5 | Apart from housing , rent restriction and the like , Wilson flattered me by consulting me on a number of topics , on which I was never slow to express an opinion and never disappointed when that opinion was totally disregarded or not even mentioned . |
| 6 | As long as you are not from London , Mr Bodenland , like all the rest of the tedious world — and as long as your business is not with me — and mercifully private , to boot — perhaps you will honour me by joining me in a glass of claret . |
| 7 | Bingham L.J. , at p. 287 , plainly took the view that a customer in a supermarket assumes some of the rights of an owner when he takes goods into his possession and exercises control over them by putting them in a basket or trolley , and thus appropriates them . |
| 8 | The cross does not affect God because he has always been loving and desiring our repentance ; it affects us by presenting us with an example of love and sacrifice which overwhelms us because of its outrageous generosity . |
| 9 | Eventually he opened one for us by hitting it with an old chisel . |