Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] him by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It must be remembered that , nine times out of ten , the third party solicitor will be relying on descriptions of locus , machinery , etc. provided to him by his client — and will not have had the opportunity of visiting the LOCUS himself . |
| 2 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 3 | Peter Catherwood finally snapped when the child referred to him by his second name . |
| 4 | The Grauniad reckoned Vinny seemed totally confounded by the affection radiated at him by Elland Road and this had an effect on the game ! |
| 5 | Rose came to him by night now . |
| 6 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 7 | Among these creators of new states none is quite like Ho Chi Minh who , despite having the spotlight of publicity turned upon him by the world 's press , remains in many ways a mystery man . |
| 8 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |
| 9 | Subsequent reliefs were smaller : in October 1241 Adam of Purton , nephew and senior co-heir of Thomas of Sandford , paid ten marks for a grant of seisin of the wardenship of Braydon Forest , which belonged to him by right of primogeniture . |
| 10 | Only when his first movement unleashed the pounding headache bequeathed to him by half a bottle of the college 's specially shipped port did he begin to regret the decision . |
| 11 | The villages , hamlets and the red-tile-roofed manors boasted their peace and prosperity for Henry was still living on the treasure bequeathed to him by his father . |
| 12 | And his tzedaka — the performance of charitable deeds enjoined on him by his religion — won him the gratitude and loyalty of many of the young men and their dependants , for it was as his travellers that they made their weekly Monday-morning trek to the country , secure in the knowledge that , no matter how erratic the week 's takings might be , their basic wage was guaranteed by Max Klein . |
| 13 | The fate of Mirabeau , for instance , would have been sealed by the lack of sympathy felt for him by the people , on account of their irritation with the Court 's defence of the old order . |
| 14 | The ambivalence of Mynne 's relations with the Crown is epitomized by the repeated accusations of delinquency ( that is , royalism ) brought against him by one of the parliamentarian committees in charge of penal taxation during the years 1643–7 . |
| 15 | He left them in a panelled solar beyond the hall , and went to inform his master that he had unexpected guests ; and no more than five minutes later the door of the room opened upon the lord of half Leicestershire , a good slice of Warwickshire and Northampton , and a large honour in Normandy brought to him by his marriage with the heiress of Breteuil . |
| 16 | He began to remark to others that he could not make the necessary synthesis , perhaps referring to a marriage of his romantic inclinations with the aim , inculcated in him by Colquhoun and MacBryde , to make it ‘ tight ’ , to achieve the kind of fully integrated compositional resolution often associated with classical art . |
| 17 | Incidentally , I spoke to him by house telephone yesterday evening shortly after eight o'clock and , again , at about nine fifteen . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been dealing with your affairs for some considerable time , Jenna , ’ he pointed out , as if it had been a dreadful chore wished on him by some unseen and malevolent spirit . |
| 19 | The restriction has to be justified in this case as being reasonably required for the protection of the plaintiffs ' trade secrets by preventing the defendant from disclosing confidential information imparted to him by the plaintiffs in the course of his employment … |
| 20 | Unimpressed by Prieto 's insistence that Socialist moderation was the best defence against an ever more apparent flight by conservative Spaniards towards fascism , Largo Caballero , flaunting the label of ‘ the Spanish Lenin' bestowed upon him by Pravda , preferred to beguile the Socialist rank and file with the prospect of an imminent collapse of capitalism and transition to socialism . |