Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] him by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 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 | Unaware that she had called him by name for the first time , she halted , still some feet away , gazing at him uncertainly . |
| 5 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 6 | Doyle watched her riffle through a wad of papers as though she had taken him by surprise , and when she held up something for Tug to see he craned sideways so that he could glimpse it too . |
| 7 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 8 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |