Example sentences of "by [v-ing] him [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The president had silenced the vociferous strike-leader by bringing him on to the ruling body . |
| 2 | The Bible becomes his bastion against moral powerlessness , too , by reminding him constantly of the divine power that is available to overcome his weakness ( for " God is at work in you , both to will and to work for his good pleasure " ) . |
| 3 | James Shaw was given five years for his part in a later plot to kill Stephen Brown by knocking him down with a car . |
| 4 | In The Desert Rats as the young English captain who put paid to that upstart Rommel by turning him back at a crucial moment in the whole North African Campaign ( set in Palm Springs ) , he was fine . |
| 5 | The Army had taught him that , too , and the SAS acceptance tests had rammed the lesson home by sending him out over the damp Brecon Beacons with a 55-lb Bergen rucksack knowing he had to cover a certain distance in a certain time but not knowing that when he had done it , there would n't be the trucks they had promised but a vague assur-ance of a cup of tea if he kept on marching a few more miles in that direction . |
| 6 | Terry Roach , 41 , convicted of killing a police officer by running him over in a truck , serving life in the Phillips Correctional Institution , Georgia and Michael Hamilton , aged 40 , convicted of the contract killing of his wife , sentenced to death in the gas chamber at San Quentin . |
| 7 | The subtler of the recent readings of the Shipman 's Tale keeps the merchant in the position of target figure by treating him not as a realistic character , but as a functional one : a figure representing the interplay of more abstract themes and factors affecting human life . |
| 8 | Stanley 's family helped initially by taking him out to the pub , but he was worse on his return . |