Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] by his " in BNC.
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| 1 | If , on the other hand , God should have ordained for me thus , miserable and wretched as I am , and should have called me by His grace to sit solitary and serve him in that manner , as he deigns to grant to me , shall I not persevere in that calling ? |
| 2 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 3 | She had called him by his name — a thing she had so far refused to do . |
| 4 | He must never know how successful his demonstration had been , how much he had hurt her by his sudden rejection . |
| 5 | The report included his ( named ) niece 's account that Fairley had terrified her by his sexual advances to her in a car . |
| 6 | At the time of the Westerfield poisonings he had sometimes been a difficult man to agree with , and he 'd more than once annoyed her by his attitude . |
| 7 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 8 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Christ is the Bridegroom ; the Church is his bride , whom he loves because he has gained her by his blood . |
| 12 | The seeds of these two sorts were sent from Peru by Mr. Joseph de Jussieu to the Royal garden at Paris , part of which was sent me by his brother Bernard de Jussieu of the Royal Academy of Science ’ |