Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] him by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Posing as a Lebanese cocaine buyer , he had flown to Los Angeles with a suitcase full of counterfeit US currency provided by DEA Nicosia and checked into a room booked for him by the DEA at the Sheraton Universal hotel . |
| 4 | He felt at rest , the dark weight of tension lifted from him by the woman . |
| 5 | He watched her dab her cheeks , then wipe her eyes , his heart torn from him by the tiny shudder she gave . |
| 6 | At the start of the further hearing , the Attorney-General , who appeared for the Crown , drew our attention to a letter addressed to him by the Clerk of the House of Commons suggesting that any reference to Hansard for the purpose of construing the Act might breach the privileges of that House . |
| 7 | He looked to be peevish , the corners of his full mouth turned down , and an irritable look in his face each time he answered some remark addressed to him by the woman at his side . |
| 8 | Part II requested the Secretary-General to report to the next ( 46th ) session on the recommendations addressed to him by the Intergovernmental Expert Group to Study the Economic and Social Consequences of Illicit Traffic in Drugs convened under Resolution 44/142 of Dec. 15 , 1989 [ see p. 37434 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Much of McQueen 's acting was done for him by the make-up of Charles Schram , who effectively ages him over his years of solitary confinement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He 'd had a new set made for him by the professional but somehow could not get used to them . |
| 13 | ‘ He strongly disagrees with what was said about him by the Accounts Commission , ’ Mr Tait added . |
| 14 | For that reason , he has omitted his more fragile or delicate works in favour of robustness , playing with various permutations in a 1:20 model built for him by the Richard Rogers Partnership . |
| 15 | He was not aware of any post being sought for him by the Government and , if offered one , would have turned it down . |
| 16 | He was compensated with a pension secured for him by the new lord treasurer , Sir Thomas Osborne ( later Earl of Danby , q.v . ) . |
| 17 | He was constantly harassed by Philip III of France and his officers as a result of a fine of 15,000 l.t. imposed upon him by the French king 's court in 1273 . |
| 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 | If it is proposed to make employees redundant , it is suggested that the vendor should commence consultation with the unions no later than the same time as the statutory consultation period imposed upon him by the Trade Union and Labour Relations ( Consolidation ) Act 1992 , s188 . |
| 20 | The real point of Mr. Wadsworth 's submission is the question : did the judge exercise that discretion reposed in him by the orders ? |
| 21 | It is notable too that this liberal interpretation is proposed by the jurist , and merely adopted from him by the emperor . |
| 22 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 23 | He referred to the Bible that had been presented to him by the people of Memel St on July 10 at the opening of their march . |
| 24 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 25 | Immediate Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham with two sleeve-design awards presented to him by the NME in 1969 |
| 26 | In the following year he published a volume of twenty coloured aquatint views of St Petersburg , and the reference in his will to jewellery presented to him by the emperor of Russia may be connected with these events . |
| 27 | He also intends to hand them a 9,000-name petition presented to him by the Cammell Laird Community Group today . |
| 28 | His artistic career began with a series of paintings based on the thirteenth-century sculpture of the elegant countess of Uta on the façade of Naumburg cathedral , a photograph of which had been lent to him by the young artist Vlady , but in the late fifties he turned his attention to Spanish art . |
| 29 | Gift Aid may not be used by a donor as a means of writing of a debt or loan owed to him by the charity . |
| 30 | Shearman was also anxious to secure Pateman 's future and was conscious of the debt owed to him by the District for many years of difficult , painstaking and often discouraging work . |