Example sentences of "[verb] him by his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With regard to sending mail to your grandson addressing him by his old surname , you are fully entitled to address him as you choose . |
| 2 | he deserves a happier memorial than the one afforded him by his last few crazy hours on the dance-floor and the street . |
| 3 | And if your friend , the bridegroom , or the bride 's father-in-law or another older man is usually called ‘ Al ’ , on this occasion should you be calling him by his full name , ( and if so , is that short for Albert , Alfred , Ali , Alexis , Alexander , or , even more formally , Mr Smith ? |
| 4 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
| 5 | De Craon comes here , ’ he added bitterly , ‘ with his false face and lying tongue … the fellow would n't know the truth if it jumped up and pulled him by his pointed nose ! ’ |
| 6 | The husband was called Jack , and everyone called him by his first name , but for some reason one always called his wife Mrs Thwaites , although we all knew her Christian name was Margaret . |
| 7 | His son , silver-haired delighted to see his father , tottering across some green meadow , sent to embrace him by his dark-eyed , olive-skinned mother , Eleanor . |
| 8 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
| 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 | ‘ I used to call him by his real name Coy Luther and he got real mad . ’ |
| 11 | Amiss speculated about why she felt entitled to call him by his first name . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On 7 July 1575 Sir John Forster , the Warden of the English Middle March , took offence at an insult offered him by his opposite number , supporters of the two men began to jeer at each other , and a skirmish ensued in which several men were killed and Sir John and his son-in-law Lord Francis Russell were carried off as prisoners . |