Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [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 | The Butcher remained a vivid memory because , apart from my ordeal , I was constantly remanded of him by the dangerous wobbling of my pipe at the edge of that needless gap in my mouth . |
| 3 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 4 | The same note , perhaps struck from him by Loyola 's Exercises , is often heard in Lassus 's motets — in ‘ Infelix ego ’ and ‘ Timor et tremor ’ , both from the Sacrae Cantiones of 1566 , to take only two examples out of many — in the Lamentationes of 1585 , and in his very last composition , the already mentioned Lagrime di San Pietro . |
| 5 | The Factory Whistle he had already read , in the handsome new edition personally inscribed to him by Viola Machin ( ‘ To Gregory Hocking a very good friend to both Walter 's widows — from Viola Machin ’ ) . |
| 6 | the ‘ evidence ’ comes from the subject himself and is not given to him by another person . |
| 7 | Did the film team just happen upon him by chance in the bar as his meter ticked towards ‘ maudlin ’ ? |
| 8 | The king also retained a considerable range of prerogative powers , those inherent in the office of king and not conferred on him by legislation or the common law . |
| 9 | It is to be observed that in the Bognor Regis case Browne J. did not consider whether his decision had any effect on the right to freedom of expression , doubtless because the point was not taken before him by the defendant , who appeared in person . |
| 10 | That is not to say that the Minister has not left questions unanswered , not least the one just put to him by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) . |
| 11 | FALKLANDS war hero Simon Weston is to tackle an 800-mile journey in America on a £2,000 cycle specially designed for him by the Lotus car company . |
| 12 | The particulars must also be confirmed by or on behalf of the clearing member , and again this is usually done for him by the exchange 's electronic system . |
| 13 | While Smailovic in Sarajevo plays the Adagio specially written for him by Edinburgh-based composer Nigel Osborne , he will be joined by American cellist Evelyn Elsing at the Capitol in Washington DC , Florian Kitt at the Red Cross Depot in Vienna and music student Diana Isaacs in Edinburgh . |
| 14 | On 20 December Pope Clement V was persuaded to issue a Bull , declaring that the concessions Edward had made had been unjustly extorted from him by force , were incompatible with his coronation oath to defend the honour and rights of the Crown , and were therefore null and void . |
| 15 | He shifted under her , sliding her away so that she was still bound to him by the steel bands of his arms , but was now lying by his side . |
| 16 | 32 ( 1 ) Subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , where in the case of any action for which a period of limitation is prescribed by this Act , either — ( a ) the action is based upon the fraud of the defendant ; or ( b ) any fact relevant to the plaintiff 's right of action has been deliberately concealed from him by the defendant ; or ( c ) the action is for relief from the consequences of a mistake ; the period of limitation shall not begin to run until the plaintiff has discovered the fraud , concealment or mistake ( as the case may be ) or could with reasonable diligence have discovered it … |
| 17 | All this had been carefully explained to him by Bewdsley , who had been sent to find him . |
| 18 | But if this state of comparative retirement owed much to his desire to experience as fully as possible the companionship of marriage , it was also imposed upon him by the demands of his still fragile health . |
| 19 | Joshua Morris looked down his calendar of events , carefully prepared for him by his secretary . |
| 20 | A further three years ' non-residence , as well as the revenues of Ightham , were also granted to him by papal indult . |
| 21 | He has no power to order discovery of documents or the attendance of witnesses or to make any order as to costs ( unless such power is expressly conferred on him by the lease ) ; and if he dies or becomes incapable or unwilling to continue , it is doubtful whether another expert could be appointed under the lease . |
| 22 | State of the Art , David advertises ‘ Stylophone ’ , originally given to him by Marc Bolan |
| 23 | He had a picture in his mind of the layout of passage , stairs and landing , a picture unwittingly painted for him by the man who had retrieved his wallet . |
| 24 | But back to Worcestershire , where Moody got two early Championship hundreds in a summer so far restricted for him by shin and ankle-ligament problems : where the worries over Dilley 's Achilles tendon and knee wo n't go away ; where Hick 's form remains enigmatic ; where left-hander Adam Seymour , the Millfield boy who switched from Essex — at appeared an astute and logical career move for him — has so far failed to make an impact on the banks of the Severn . |
| 25 | Like many of the expatriate teachers here , he obviously has strong sympathies with the Chinese communist line , and that 's probably why we were n't introduced to him by the embassy . |
| 26 | Foremost among his worries was a storyline from a writer initially recommended to him by Dennis Spooner — Terry Nation . |
| 27 | On 12 October 1738 , as ‘ B.B. Philo Physiologiae ’ , he issued proposals in the Daily Advertiser for subscribers to this work which was then printed for him by Godfrey Smith in ten volumes , plus plates , between 1738 and 1741 , under the title of Memoirs of the Royal Society ; being a new Abridgment of the Philosophical Transactions for the years 1665 to 1735 . |
| 28 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 29 | Thirdly , the Abbe Gerard apparently drowned after drinking claret which was undoubtedly sent to him by Dacourt , though taken down to the village probably by his secretary , Master Millet . |
| 30 | Marcus was in shirt sleeves , looking rather more dandyish in a clean shirt , indeed a new shirt , evidently bought for him by Irina . |