Example sentences of "to him by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But , to his credit , de Valera toned down the catholicism in the drafts suggested to him by the clergy , consulted Rome , and was successful in getting it at least to be neutral about his preferred formulations ( Keogh 1987 : . |
| 3 | Bowled over by the originality and assurance of Joyce 's Ulysses , which was being sent to him by the author in typescript section by section , Pound was between 1920 and 1922 dismantling the several hundred lines of The Cantos that he had written and published , and recasting them radically , using some of the same material but trying for a less personalized presentation . |
| 4 | Taking his curtain calls after a successful speech , he drew her to him by the hand and entwined his arms with hers until she gently shook him off , whereupon he enjoyed his triumph for a while manfully alone , until he again resorted to his wife Glenys , going to fetch her , leading her again by the hand , and holding her by the waist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When ‘ King John ’ Houlding , a self-made brewer and prominent local Tory , tried to use his position on the Everton board to jack up the rent paid to him by The club , There was a shareholders ' revolt and Houlding eventually left the club to form Liverpool FC . |
| 8 | Their response to the Lord Chancellor 's green papers , sent to him by the Judges ' Council , broke a long-standing convention that the judges made no comment as a group on proposed changes in the law . |
| 9 | It is as if God , embittered by the recalcitrance of humanity , has turned to behaving in the same manner as that imputed to him by the serpent in the Garden in its dialogue with the woman . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Mr Yeltsin stressed , however , that he would fight any attempts to cancel the emergency powers granted to him by the last Congress in October . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Wherefore as God had granted him all those dominions , it seemed just to them that he should accept the imperial title also , when it was offered to him by the consent of all Christendom . |
| 14 | The head , operating under powers delegated to him by the governors , would set up criteria for the policy and appoint one of the staff to run the scheme . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Donald Crubach played to him by the hour . |
| 17 | In 27 BC Octavian took the name Augustus , offered to him by the Roman Senate . |
| 18 | In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors . |
| 19 | A brother , Thomas Piper , is known to Burns enthusiasts as ‘ Spunkie Tammie ’ , a name given to him by the poet after the two men met in Maybole in 1786 . |
| 20 | He knew the way vaguely from the journey the night before and the careful directions given to him by the Prior . |
| 21 | Patrick was again experimenting with balance , deliberately trying to build a construction that would over-balance ( a word given to him by the teacher during their earlier discussions ) . |
| 22 | Half of the marriage service fee ( £19.50 ) goes to the clergyman but this will be deducted from the salary paid to him by the Church Commissioners . |
| 23 | The king would often reward a family for service to him by the grant of a fair . |
| 24 | Immediate Svengali Andrew Loog Oldham with two sleeve-design awards presented to him by the NME in 1969 |
| 25 | He said he had made a full examination of the submissions made to him by the council and by Mrs Kemp . |
| 26 | Incidentally , for his part , on 16 September 1982 Mr Fowler issued a writ in the High Court claiming almost £23,000 for arrears of commission owed to him by the company . |
| 27 | No , he said , he was just disagreeing with a view put to him by the interviewer — just as Lady Thatcher herself would have disagreed with it . |
| 28 | On that occasion he had a special reason — though an odd one — for his refusal : he was fully occupied with the duty of defence which had been entrusted to him by the king . |
| 29 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |
| 30 | The Order also laid it down that ‘ the medical superintendent shall reside in the part of the hospital assigned to him by the Management Committee , or in such other place as the Committee may approve ’ . |