Example sentences of "to he by the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Has my right hon. Friend had a chance yet to read the excellent report submitted to him by the chief constable of Northumbria about the problem of constant reoffending on bail ? |
| 2 | He repeated the other details about the shipment of cocaine , as relayed to him by the mysterious informant the previous night . |
| 3 | Part II requested the Secretary-General to report to the next ( 46th ) session on the recommendations addressed to him by the Intergovernmental Expert Group to Study the Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Traffic in Drugs convened under Resolution 44/142 of Dec. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 37434 ] . |
| 4 | In 27 BC Octavian took the name Augustus , offered to him by the Roman Senate . |
| 5 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 6 | Tranchant , who had been co-owner with Tapie of an electronics firm , Nippon Audio Video System , alleged that Tapie had fraudulantly kept him ignorant of a payment of F13,000,000 which had been made to him by the Japanese company Toshiba when Toshiba bought the company in 1985 . |
| 7 | One of us ( D.G. ) developed the model described below before it was explained to him by the second author ( R.S.C. ) that VGPs are plotted in an asymmetrical way that appears natural to the palaeomagnetist but is confusing when considering the theory . |
| 8 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 9 | For he is suddenly , miraculously , aware that he has got a wonderful — no ! — a perfect alibi ; an alibi which has been given to him by the very person he has just killed . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't think so , ’ he replied sullenly , unrolling his sleeves and going to the chair , where he collected the burgundy waistcoat given to him by the old man . |
| 11 | This fact was abruptly brought home to him by the commanding voice ringing through the gloom of the overcast evening . |
| 12 | The toy , the squeaky duck or whatever , will be offered to him by the smiling child . |