Example sentences of "by [verb] him [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By dismissing him the Respondent left a cloud over his honesty which can be removed only by full vindication in respect of that . |
| 2 | By 1958 , with more than 50 papers published , the University of London recognised Barber 's contribution to chemotherapy by awarding him a DSc . |
| 3 | Dogs Today 's Launch issue cover story last November featured Guinness , who earned a Bounce Superdog award when he saved his owner from a diabetic coma by fetching him a Mars bar . |
| 4 | Once a dog called Guinness saved his diabetic master by fetching him a Mars . |
| 5 | However she was honest enough to feel that , as she had begun the courting by sending him the valentine , she ought not to refuse him now . |
| 6 | Apparently Chéron hid Modi 's clothes to keep him in , for Brancusi claimed to have rescued the stranded painter by buying him a jersey and a pair of trousers so that he could go out into the street . |
| 7 | Is it in order to insult an hon. Member by calling him a jerk ? |
| 8 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 9 | Most of all , I would worry if they sought Continued on Page 2 Continued from Page 1 to demonstrate their solidarity with a man in a spot of bother by giving him a present perhaps a watch inscribed ‘ do n't let the buggers get you down ’ after all , it appears to be a coded message that it 's time for an early and a swift departure . ’ |
| 10 | The father , for his part , must make sure that these privileges are properly passed on to him by giving him a death-bed blessing . |
| 11 | Suppose that he has to produce , not the complete works of Shakespeare but just the short sentence " Methinks it is like a weasel " , and we shall make it relatively easy by giving him a typewriter with a restricted keyboard , one with just the 26 ( capital ) letters , and a space bar . |
| 12 | By giving him a place in contemporary history going back to Tony Cragg , Anish Kapoor , Richard Deacon , the dealer enhances his credibility . |
| 13 | TERRORISTS tried to murder a soldier last night by giving him a tin of chocolates containing a bomb . |
| 14 | The Police were so worried about Davies in the sixth round of the Schweppes Cup last season that they knocked him out by giving him a Saturday shift . |
| 15 | So many cities enrolled him as a freeman , usually by giving him a scroll of membership in a gold box , that Horace Walpole summed up his popularity in the phrase ‘ For some weeks it rained gold boxes ’ , and the more prosaic Duke of Newcastle recognized that no government could survive if Pitt opposed it . |
| 16 | Louis and his great men deliberated , and decided : at the summer assembly in July , the Ordinatio Imperii accommodated Lothar 's ambitions by giving him the title of co-emperor forthwith and promising him the whole of Francia on his father 's demise . |
| 17 | Anthemius intended to acknowledge his achievements by giving him the title of patricius , but the emperor was himself killed by Gundobad . |
| 18 | The old king rewarded Sigmar by giving him the warhammer Ghal Maraz , or Skull Splitter , an ancient magic heirloom of Kurgan 's house . |
| 19 | He managed somehow to get Caspar near the tree and by giving him the wrapping to chew he got him to stop barking . |
| 20 | As a great favour , the well-known proprietor of a cigar shop he frequented introduced him to a ‘ gentleman ’ with a den in Piccadilly who offered to ‘ help him out of his difficulty ’ by lending him the money . |
| 21 | Mr Winchester 's guide somewhat spoils that last triumph by showing him a press release — written , of course , on a Macintosh — from a man who had followed Balboa 's footsteps two months earlier . |
| 22 | They can execrate someone whom they decide is a useless clown and they do this by making him a Lord , giving him the chairmanship of a quango and telling the chaps at the Athenaeum to hand him non-executive directorships in 15 companies and a merchant bank . |
| 23 | The City of Glasgow and the town of Ayr each honoured Macrae by making him a Burgess . |
| 24 | This was precisely the situation in which Charles and Elizabeth found themselves in 1772 ; and we may surmise that they did what brother John was to do later — in the absence of Thomas the Calvinist , who had died just over a year previously , they honoured Charles 's elder brother William by making him the godfather and giving the child his Christian name . |
| 25 | The editor of the Church of England Newspaper remarked that the overzealousness of Ramsey 's friends did him a disservice by making him the representative of an intolerant school of thought and by inflating his reputation beyond what his record would endorse . |
| 26 | The last thing she wanted , now that she had gained a small advantage , was to blow that advantage by telling him the truth . |
| 27 | He served him well by telling him the truth and by refusing to scheme against him . |
| 28 | The Supervisor , initially resentful of the extra floor cleaning brought by muddy police boots , soon found herself softened into liking this polite young constable , and ended by offering him a cup of tea . |
| 29 | Britain bought him off by offering him the sovereignty of this area , ‘ Transjordan ’ . |
| 30 | The feoffees for impropriations came to his rescue by offering him the vicarage of All Saints ' , Hertford ( where the millenarian Christopher Feake , q.v. , was later to serve ) . |