Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] him by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 2 | He never charged for the rooms and the journalists repaid him by keeping their custom at the bar . |
| 3 | None of the French journalists embarrassed him by pointing out that this first ‘ petit saison ’ of the Opera — and even the next season — fall far short of the target for the Opera de la Bastille , which is 250 performances a year . |
| 4 | Even so , the first words took him by surprise . |
| 5 | Carl had no time for these , or possibly our parents failed him by not encouraging him in that direction . |
| 6 | Most of the youngsters know him by name and he is often called to Hendon police station when they get into trouble with the law . |
| 7 | Searelle invited artistes to contact him by first writing to John , who thus became responsible for their standards . |
| 8 | Only three of the 13 Democrats originally pledged to vote for Thomas changed sides in the final Senate vote as a result of Hill 's charges , but 11 others ( eight of them representing Southern states in which they depended heavily on black support ) joined with all but two of the Republicans to confirm him by a slim majority . |
| 9 | By the terms of his enrolment , there is little doubt that the provision of regular review assessment panels helped him by offering support , encouragement and occasionally chastisement for letting himself down . |
| 10 | Huddersfield 's winger Billy Smith was felled on the edge of ( some said just outside ) the area , and he drove the ball home from the spot , despite the goalkeeper 's efforts to distract him by jumping up and down . |
| 11 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 12 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He would cajole , flatter and persuade congressmen to support him by using his wide knowledge of their attitudes , constituencies , prejudices and personal backgrounds . |
| 15 | For the next seventy-five minutes he will be the most important man on the floor-maintaining discipline and relaying all the instructions given him by the team assembled up in the gallery . |
| 16 | Mr Hikmatyar , whose strength springs largely from the favours shown him by the Americans and Pakistanis in the 1980s , is now ‘ prime minister-designate ’ of Afghanistan . |
| 17 | The community of the Trinity is a companionship of love , and the God who is love refused to force free creatures to love him by command . |
| 18 | But Burton 's radicalism was soon overtaken by the inevitable favours bought him by his talents . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | If he caught them before they reached the Isthmus of Corinth he killed the suitor ; and he always did , because he had divine horses given him by his father Ares . |
| 23 | THE FUTURE of China 's conservative Premier , Li Peng , was thrown into doubt yesterday when the country 's normally tame parliamentarians rebuffed him by rewriting his government report . |