Example sentences of "[verb] by him [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing inconsistent with the Income Tax Acts in recognising and respecting the distinction between property owned by a person as trustee and property owned by him in his own right … |
| 2 | He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock . |
| 3 | There is also reference to reprimands and complaints addressed by him to his subordinates ; on one occasion we are told that the generals on an unsuccessful campaign justified their failure by explaining that although his piety was noted , he was not feared and this meant that his agents commanded no respect . |
| 4 | Teena , Sams ' third wife , also rejected newspaper suggestions that she was offering to sell a book written by him about his killing of teenage prostitute Julie Dart and abduction of estate agent Stephanie Slater . |
| 5 | When two or more persons took as tenants in common , the share of each was treated as a separate item of property which could not only be transferred by him in his lifetime , but which would pass on his death to his representatives . |
| 6 | Athelstan , still feeling depressed after his visit to Hob 's wife , ignored the coroner and pushed by him into his small , two-roomed house . |
| 7 | The court must take into consideration the nature of the testator 's property , the pecuniary position of the dependant , his or her conduct to the testator , and any other relevant circumstance , and the testator 's reasons for the dispositions made by him in his will . |
| 8 | They were acquired by Mr. B. Hopkin-Morris and preserved by him until his death in 1933 , when they were named after him , as a memorial . |
| 9 | Haverford Downs , dressed now in a tweed jacket , grey flannels and a white polo-necked sweater , holding an ivory-topped walking-stick in a plump hand on which a single green-stoned ring — alleged by him in his wilder moments to have been worn by Aubrey Beardsley — winked malevolently , gave her his full septuagenarian charm . |
| 10 | It was Newton himself , again , who , during his priority dispute with Leibniz , encouraged the notion that the conclusions presented in a classical geometrical garb in the Principia were originally derived by him through his fluxional calculus — one more ‘ fable ’ . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Nothing in subsection ( 1 ) above shall prohibit or restrict : ( a ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor in any premises at any time within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours ; ( b ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises within fifteen minutes after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if such liquor was supplied in those premises during the permitted hours and was not supplied or taken away in an open vessel ; ( c ) the sale or supply to , or consumption by , any person of alcoholic liquor in any premises where he is residing ; ( d ) the taking of alcoholic liquor from any premises by a person residing there ; ( e ) the supply of alcoholic liquor , in any premises , for consumption on those premises , to any private friends of a person residing there who are bona fide entertained by , and at the expense of , that person , or the consumption by such friends of alcoholic liquor so supplied to them ; the ordering of alcoholic liquor to be consumed off the premises or the despatch by the vendor of liquor so ordered ; ( g ) the supply of alcoholic liquor for consumption on licensed premises to any private friends of the holder of the licence bona fide entertained by him at his own expense , or the consumption of alcoholic liquor by persons so supplied ; ( h ) the consumption of alcoholic liquor at a meal by any person at any time within half an hour after the conclusion of the permitted hours in the afternoon or evening , as the case may be , if the liquor was supplied during the permitted hours and served at the same time as the meal and for consumption at the meal ; ( i ) the sale of alcoholic liquor to a trader for the purposes of his trade , or to a registered club for the purposes of the club ; or ( j ) the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to any canteen in which the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor is carried on under the authority of the Secretary of State or to any authorised mess of members of Her Majesty 's naval , military or air forces . |
| 12 | There is also an exemption in the case of the supply of alcoholic liquor for the consumption of friends of a resident who are being bona fide entertained by him at his expense at the premises where he is residing ( e ) . |
| 13 | Freud 's concept of instinct is discussed by him in his paper ‘ Instincts and their Vicissitudes ’ ( 1915 ) . |
| 14 | She greeted the proprietor in her careful Italian and was welcomed by him in his careful English . |
| 15 | The opposition Awami League opposed the motion , which followed attempts in early July to restore parliamentary rule and to ratify the appointment of acting President , Shehabuddin Ahmed , and all actions taken by him during his tenure . |
| 16 | Ressentiment is a more precise word ; he may well have been blaming God in these developing years for the loss he felt — for the anguish it gave not only to himself but also that witnessed by him in his mother and sister . |
| 17 | Yet such evidence as there is suggests that his love for his wife had been deepened by the way she had stood by him during his years in prison . |
| 18 | His wife of 37 years , Nesta , stood by him during his first public humiliation . |
| 19 | Many , ranging from large estates to small-holdings in towns , were given by him to his French supporters and to those English whom he could tempt over to settle in northern France . |
| 20 | But he is also said to be intensely loyal to the woman who stood by him during his 27 years of imprisonment . |
| 21 | And why did he do it when it was perfectly possible for him to have experimented on any cadaver purchased by him for his medical academy ? |
| 22 | The matter was discussed in Commercial Plastics Ltd v Vincent [ 1965 ] 1 QB 623 where it was said : It is clear from the authorities that the plaintiffs were not entitled to impose a restriction which would prevent the defendant from using in competition with the plaintiffs the skill and aptitude and general technical knowledge acquired by him in his employment by the plaintiffs . |