Example sentences of "him and [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Robert Bruce , Earl of Carrick , took up the fight against the English and had himself crowned King of Scotland , Walter the Steward ( Walter Stewart ) supported him and fought by his side in 1314 at the Battle of Bannockburn . |
| 2 | However a lap later McCall had passed him and led by 20 seconds and he stretched his lead all the way to the finish . |
| 3 | The contrast between the two men of near-identical appearance is shown in a less formal , more novelistic manner in the character of the King , depicted in The Prisoner of Zenda as a weak , pleasure-loving young man trying to equip himself for his destiny and in Rupert of Hentzau as a man ill in body , weaned by matters of state , gradually coming to resent his obligations to the man whose courage and energy have twice saved his position for him and burdened by jealous suspicions of his wife 's fidelity . |
| 4 | Lebna Dengel proved friendly to the Portuguese , although dissatisfied with the presents they had brought him and exasperated by their quarrels among themselves . |
| 5 | I had time only to think , he will find my own garb strange , before I walked dazedly up to him and sat by his side a yard away from him . |
| 6 | His conviction rested on two confessions Gilmour alleges were respectively beaten out of him and concocted by police officers . |
| 7 | He motioned an unwilling Adjutant and Sergeant out ahead of him and stood by the open door , frowning so deeply that Clarissa would have followed if Charity had n't risked leaving her defences and staked all on a final devastating attack . |