Example sentences of "by [verb] him [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had had the playwright in his power , and been tempted to astonish the court and the television audiences by sucking him dry on the stand . |
| 2 | But by keeping him secret she had given him too much power . |
| 3 | The pagans think it important to propitiate gods with sacrifices , yet they have no idea which is the most powerful of them , so that they might be offending the one who most needs propitiating by paying him insufficient attention . |
| 4 | Just as the magician fools his audience with his sleight of hand , so deflection displays confuse the pouncing predator by sending him false signals . |
| 5 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's promising defender of the 1980s , Billy Garton , has handed Prescot striker Dave Massett a massive boost by calling him one of the best players in the Bass North West Counties League . |
| 6 | By evading him earlier that morning she 'd played into his hands , at the same time both increasing his suspicions and giving him the best part of the day to allay them . |
| 7 | I have alarmed my own dentist by asking him detailed questions based on the knowledge gained from Gill . |
| 8 | And then you can do it without Fred and , really , with Fred is , is at the end of day you could pro proof pay load could go back to yourself and I , I E and ourselves , but by having him that other cut you 're gon na be saying well it 's all a bit more than your share . |
| 9 | And , by giving him all the best lines ( ‘ Yo , District Attorney 's Club , sucker ’ ) and using him sparingly , Mulcahy , and Silver allow Ice to hijack the three or four scenes in which he appears and walk away with the film single-handedly . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't have a TV , ’ she said , doing her best to earn this very expensive dinner by giving him all her attention . |
| 11 | ‘ A local housing authority may perform any duty under section 65 or 68 ( duties to persons found to be homeless ) to secure that accommodation becomes available for the occupation of a person — ( a ) by making available accommodation held by them under Part II ( provision of housing ) or under any other enactment , ( b ) by securing that he obtains accommodation from some other person , or ( c ) by giving him such advice and assistance as will secure that he obtains accommodation from some other person . |
| 12 | ‘ A local housing authority may perform any duty under section 65 or 68 ( duties to persons found to be homeless ) to secure that accommodation becomes available for the occupation of a person — ( a ) by making available suitable accommodation held by them under Part II ( provision of housing ) or any enactment , or ( b ) by securing that he obtains suitable accommodation from some other person , or ( c ) by giving him such advice and assistance as will secure that he obtains suitable accommodation from some other person , and in determining whether accommodation is suitable they shall have regard to Part IX ( slum clearance ) , X ( overcrowding ) and XI ( houses in multiple occupation ) of this Act . |
| 13 | Also , while he is paying and after he has paid , do n't add to your worries by giving him more credit . |
| 14 | Before he departed , he did his best to curb Prince John 's ambition by giving him several huge tracts of English land in Derbyshire , Somerset , Dorset , Devon and Cornwall . |
| 15 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |
| 16 | Ari wondered whether she was betraying him in some way by leaving him alone with the dreaded sibling of Cabochon Crevecoeur . |
| 17 | Red-faced Radio Cleveland presenter Tim Ellingford flew into a panic when an airline bungle by left him stranded at Heathrow instead of hosting the Sunday lunchtime show from Middlesbrough . |
| 18 | There was growing scepticism about an earlier reported attempt on Nevzorov 's life : on Dec. 12 , 1990 , he allegedly had been wounded by a gunman who had lured him to a rendezvous in a Leningrad street by offering him sensitive documents . |