Example sentences of "[prep] he by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the patient stands up , he practises bringing the ball back towards him by bending his elbows with good control . |
| 2 | Grace Road has a ‘ starless ’ society now , though that may change in time with the development of 20-year old Ben Smith , who justified the high opinions held of him by making his maiden first-class century in the first game of the season . |
| 3 | FORMER Speaker Bernard Weatherill used to put a hard day calling ‘ Order , order ’ behind him by ordering a range of his favourite vegetarian dishes . |
| 4 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 5 | He used to get bored driving around looking for locations alone and so bribed me to go with him by buying me a camera . |
| 6 | While her husband occupied himself with making mental notes as to his proposed victim 's physical constitution and disposition of character , Cleo amused herself with Lorimer , communicating with him by pulling delightful impish faces and fluttering her hands . |
| 7 | He opted for the latter route and took up the gauntlet he saw set before him by steeling himself for a career as a boxer , a career in which he distinguished himself as a man of immense resolve and purposefulness . |
| 8 | Arnold Palmer had already won the US Masters and the US Open , and was looking to sweep all before him by making it the hat-trick and grabbing the jewel in the crown : the centenary Open Championship at St Andrews . |
| 9 | In a similar position would be a street trader , who regularly deals with a certain wholesaler and who could only gain credit from him by guaranteeing to purchase his goods . |
| 10 | This , together with his proposed union treaty , which opponents saw as a breakup of the Soviet Union , drove conservatives to try to take over control from him by declaring a state of emergency — in effect , a coup d'état . |
| 11 | ‘ I wish we could stay , Aunt , ’ Naylor replied charmingly , and took her mind away from him by asking , ‘ Did Travis come home last night ? ’ |
| 12 | Claudia moved briskly away from him by dodging a small girl who was eating an ice-cream . |
| 13 | We 'll probably find out more about him by speaking to his prospective models . |
| 14 | ‘ Because , my dear , ’ Marc gave a perceptible sigh , ‘ as I 've already suggested , if you 're not going to play it my way you can best show your regard for him by taking up my alternative offer of an airline ticket before he returns . |
| 15 | ‘ Why jeopardize what he had going for him by getting greedy ? |
| 16 | If matters are simplified for him by assuming that he can move only north , south , east or west , and excluding the possibility that he might collapse on the spot , can you visualize the path he would follow ? |
| 17 | the computer-based Stockmaster system does some of the customer 's work for him by maintaining a constant watch on CO2 stock level in his tanks . |
| 18 | Nothing , if the injury persisted , but whatever a man 's mates might collect for him by passing round a hat . |
| 19 | Then he rather undercut the room 's prim pity for him by roaring with laughter . |
| 20 | I made it easier for him by saying I was n't tired , I wanted to stay up and star-gaze , and anyway the sofa in the living area was very comfortable . |
| 21 | Houston police are trying to find a man who has succeeded in getting teenage girls to pose nude for him by saying they will appear in a music video for NEW KIDS ON THE BLOCK . |
| 22 | But the war also completed his task for him by sweeping away the remains of the system under which golf professionals had been subjugated as decent , working-class chaps . |
| 23 | ‘ I tried to take some pressure off him by saying if we saw him before Christmas it would be a bonus . |
| 24 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |
| 25 | We are not insulting God but bringing glory to him by taking his Word as the stable , authoritative truth it is . |
| 26 | In whatever form the respondent 's case is pleaded he must prove not only that the appellants acted fraudulently but also that their fraud caused damage to him by causing the enactment of section 18 . |
| 27 | The Editor is grateful for the help that was given to him by catering personnel at MOD Stanmore who supplied the photographs and RAF Uxbridge . |
| 28 | Here , an anonymous Company shrink checking out the efficiency of Spiderglass Southern , he was going to see the woman he 'd enslaved to him by playing God in her mind . |
| 29 | I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay . |
| 30 | The father , for his part , must make sure that these privileges are properly passed on to him by giving him a death-bed blessing . |