Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] by his [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Deliberately , he refrained from remarking that she had called him by his Christian name for the first time . |
2 | He must never know how successful his demonstration had been , how much he had hurt her by his sudden rejection . |
3 | The report included his ( named ) niece 's account that Fairley had terrified her by his sexual advances to her in a car . |
4 | Strapped for cash , he hurried inside and bartered for sex by handing over the silver watch given him by his sick father . |
5 | 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 . |