Example sentences of "him by his [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Burton 's radicalism was soon overtaken by the inevitable favours bought him by his talents . |
| 2 | He deceives those near to him by his professions of love — ‘ A man he is of honesty and trust ’ , Othello says ( 1 . |
| 3 | The bomb Simon Cormack had been carrying on his person was concealed in the broad leather belt he wore around his waist and which had been given him by his abductors to hold up the denim jeans they had also provided for him . |
| 4 | Yet it was from the delirious welcome accorded to him by his partisans in the Madrid streets that Ferdinand VII formed his conceptions of political power ; in 1814 he was to use the Aranjuez mixture of plebeian loyalty and army support in order to defeat the liberal constitution . |
| 5 | At the time of his ascension , how does Jesus respond to the question put to him by his disciples , ‘ Lord , will you at this time give the Kingdom back to Israel ? ’ |
| 6 | Chiles 's victory was particularly impressive in that it was based upon a campaign which included the explicit rejection of negative campaigning tactics — despite personal attacks upon him by his opponents — and the renunciation of " money politics " in the form of a refusal to accept campaign contributions greater that $100 . |
| 7 | Hang him by his bollocks ! |
| 8 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 9 | Dustin seemed to behave towards fame with a certain cynicism , rather like Ben Braddock at the party thrown for him by his parents to celebrate his graduation . |
| 10 | He completed his studies and married a girl chosen for him by his parents . |
| 11 | Perhaps you know him by his shoes ? |
| 12 | He was a bachelor , and this was certainly expected of him by his colleagues . |
| 13 | On the strength of the parcels sent back to him by his brothers-in-law , and what Gould described as his ‘ own exceedingly rich collection , perhaps the finest extant ’ , he had already begun to publish a volume entitled A Synopsis of the Birds of Australia and the Adjacent Islands . |
| 14 | In 1633 legal action was taken against him by his countrymen and co-adventurers at Hatfield Chase . |
| 15 | He said he would continue to express the views put to him by his constituents ‘ without apology to anyone ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ The great landowner seems to reign there like the lion in his forest , driving from him by his roars all who seek to approach his presence . ’ |
| 17 | But the king grabbed him by his horns , beat him and thumped him , and said , " Go back to that boy and keep pestering him . |
| 18 | He thought of his authority as delegated to him by his subjects and thus contractual in origin . |
| 19 | Rice is a perfectionist when it comes to his art , which he practised as a child in Mississippi by catching bricks thrown at him by his brothers , sometimes four at a time . |