Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] by him [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The charters S 951 and 953 are gifts in Cornwall purportedly made by him in 1018 , although neither is of certain authenticity , and this was seemingly also the date of his lost foundation charter for Buckfast Abbey in Devon . |
| 2 | In 1326 he advised the king against an attempt to divorce his wife and was especially commended by him to Hugh le Despenser the younger [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Grandson was with Edward I during his visit to France and Aquitaine in 1286–9 , and was constantly employed by him in business at the courts of France and Aragon during those years . |
| 4 | So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes . |
| 5 | Trevelyan at the Treasury insisted that every scheme should be properly surveyed and costed , and be personally authorized by him in London , before work began . |
| 6 | Visited by Tom Pinch on market day and fondly imagined by him to be ‘ a very desperate sort of place ; an exceedingly wild and dissipated city ’ , MC 5 . |
| 7 | In addition to the attendance or financial loss allowance , a member may also claim travelling and subsistence allowances necessarily incurred by him for the purpose of performing an approved duty . |
| 8 | When Jean-Claude and I quit Park Terrace we did so with tea-chests packed with valuables of mine , largely selected by him from many more than we could manage to take . |
| 9 | However , Hermann says that he was generous to them , and the Bury Psalter and the Bury Gospels , both of which seem to have been produced in Christ Church Canterbury , were possibly commissioned by him as gifts . |
| 10 | The methods used by Walpole to derive the above bounds were later applied by him to the case of transversely isotropic inclusions in a homogeneous matrix . |
| 11 | The variations of skeletal representation found by Wolff ( 1973 ) are also attributed by him to hydrodynamic sorting as a result of water transport . |
| 12 | Kant tried to link the idea of numerically identical particulars with the idea of one space and one time , both conceived by him as the a priori forms of our intuition . |
| 13 | Nelson Mandela 's lawyers on Jan. 25 made available to the press copies of a document , originally written by him in prison and given to the then President P. W. Botha in July 1989 , which expressed his own view of the urgent need for the government to negotiate with the ANC . |
| 14 | He and I had had a heart to heart in the hotel following some comments supposedly made by him about me in the press , more particularly in the Sun . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | The Board of Education has now given effect to the intimation conveyed by Mr. Acland and vaguely announced by him at the Annual meeting . |
| 17 | In fact , on the evidence available , it appears that the Swedish court , under the procedure applicable in that country , could admit in evidence Price 's retraction in this country of the evidence previously given by him in Sweden . |
| 18 | I was never dropped by him at Boro or Wednesday . |
| 19 | The position of women that Engels found when he was writing was therefore seen by him as the product of a moment of history . |