Example sentences of "he by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door was opened for him by a secretary who sat alone in a corner . |
| 2 | a shop-assistant has possession of money paid to him by a customer until he puts it in the till . |
| 3 | She predeceased him by a year . |
| 4 | It was a death sentence , Trent knew with absolute certainty , passed on him by a man who was both intelligent and psychopathic . |
| 5 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 6 | The latter told of a hack TV gag writer ( Jason Robards Jr ) trying to prevent his precocious twelve-year-old nephew from being taken away from him by a Child Welfare Officer ( William Daniels ) . |
| 7 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 8 | He did tell Theo that the sketch was suggested to him by a poem of Thomas Hood 's relating the story of a conscience-stricken rich lady who has been to buy a dress and sees an emaciated , consumptive seamstress in a back room of the shop . |
| 9 | The central issue raised by the appeal is whether a plea of autrefois convict can be sustained by anything less than evidence that the offence with which the defendant stands charged has already been the subject of a complete adjudication against him by a court of competent jurisdiction comprising both the decision establishing his guilt ( whether it be the decision of the court or of the jury or the entry of his own plea ) and the final disposal of the case by the court by passing sentence or making some other order such as an order of absolute discharge . |
| 10 | He could not walk erect , and invariably crouched on his heels with his knees drawn up to his chin , and he existed on meal pottage fed to him by a spoon by his mother . |
| 11 | She was introduced to him by a friend who spoke of him with admiration . |
| 12 | Tristram 's last letter to Beatrix implied the document had been given to him by a friend . |
| 13 | He replaced Michael Duane with his old friend , Peter Solowka , who was disillusioned with the jobs opened up to him by a degree in environmental biology . |
| 14 | He was , with Giulio Argan who predeceased him by a month , and Federico Zeri , perhaps the leading opinion-former in the Italian art world , known to the general public from his articles in L'Espresso and then , from 1977 , La Repubblica . |
| 15 | Darwin 's finches , for example , could be seen to be extremely interesting only when their affinities were pointed out to him by a taxonomist . |
| 16 | John was a devout Christian and as a young man had hoped to be a minister , a vocation denied to him by a stammer in his speech . |
| 17 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 18 | Written in careful English , it had told her little except that her name had been suggested to him by a Kevin Roberts , who had tutored briefly at her old art school , and knew their London gallery . |
| 19 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 20 | His goodwill with those customers belonged to him and can not reasonably be taken from him by a covenant of this kind . |
| 21 | Could we not be told that after Wellesley 's magnificent Arabian charger , Diomed , left him by a brother officer killed in a squalid duel , was piked at Assaye he insisted he should be nursed back to fitness and not put down like the other wounded horses ? |
| 22 | A purchaser of land might well be uneasy if he knew that , even if he had no notice of a trust , the land could be recovered from him by a trustee . |
| 23 | Police Review ( 18 February 1983 ) has an article on him by a superintendent , which is full of graphic metaphors clearly illustrating this idea of ‘ traitors to the service ’ . |
| 24 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 25 | ‘ Solid , thorough , plodding , even , ’ ( that had been said of him by a Bromberg once to Frau Nordern — — but once only ) ‘ but kind in his shy way and decent to the very core . ’ |
| 26 | Sergeant Juron received one such hand , which he placed tenderly inside a velvet-lined brazen case presented to him by a Medic Captain for the purpose . |
| 27 | The difference with this baby is that he himself has selected the time at which he will display the pattern , rather than having it imposed on him by a mother 's pattern of giving care . |
| 28 | He has such great familiarity with the keyboard that when it is hidden for him by a cloth spread over it , he plays on this cloth with the same speed and the same precision . |
| 29 | Usually when a well-deserving photographer has a punch thrown at him by a celebrity , nobody bats an eyelid — unless the fist belongs to Sean Penn — indeed everybody used to expect Sinatra to take a swing . |
| 30 | The last person to have the title emperor conferred on him by a pope before 962 had been a minor Italian prince , Berengar I , who had died in 924 . |