Example sentences of "[vb pp] him by [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly a decade down under he was overdue an entirely Australian subject — the Board of Control having disappointed him by refusing to let him write their official history : ‘ This is the one major cricket book still to be written in Australia . |
| 2 | Oh , he had told lies and they had trapped him by asking for the names of other English agents in Paris . |
| 3 | Poor Stephen — she should n't have teased him by exaggerating her friendship with Martin the way she had . |
| 4 | Boesky claimed that he had put £40,000,000 into the Guinness share support scheme ; when Guinness shares subsequently slumped , he claimed that the company had compensated him by agreeing to invest $100,000,000 in his arbitrage investment fund . |
| 5 | Chapman eventually forced the ball over the line after Cantona had surprised him by passing instead of shooting when McAllister , released from emergency duty at right-back , crossed from the left . |
| 6 | During 1915 Modigliani came to feel that Max had betrayed him by siding with Beatrice . |
| 7 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 8 | Now she 's completely upstaged him by finding a Viking relic over 1,000 years old . |
| 9 | What was even more satisfying was knowing that she had given him that same lesson , not once but twice , this morning when she 'd stunned him by agreeing to see his grandmother on her own time , and last night , when she 'd turned away his advances , and never mind all that pretence about his not being interested . |
| 10 | Rex and I had annoyed him by belittling the Levellers over lunch and there was no reasoning with him when he got into one of his self-righteous moods , so we left him to it . |
| 11 | Of relics of ‘ Our Henry 's ’ birth , the chateau of Pau keeps a single , peculiar example : the large turtle-shell supposed to have served him for a cradle , once his grandfather had christened him by rubbing his lips with a clove of garlic and a dab of Jurançon wine . |
| 12 | When David had asked her to clear the mess away , for fear of inciting his stepfather 's rage , Beth had astonished him by refusing . |
| 13 | Andrew Richens was 17 when he stabbed William Choi , who he claimed had boasted of having sex with his girlfriend and had taunted him by saying she had probably never had a real man before . |
| 14 | She would n't have upset him by taking his dog for a walk , that was for sure . |