Example sentences of "by his [noun sg] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew had been annoyed by his fall and on the court he went at it as if trying to prove something , beating Peter easily . |
| 2 | After being invalided out of the Royal Artillery in 1942 , Price joined the company of ( Sir ) Noël Coward [ q.v. ] , who was so impressed by his charm that in 1943 he gave Price the leading role of Charles Condamine in his play , Blithe Spirit , at the Duchess Theatre . |
| 3 | Magnified as much by his fever as by the brass telescope to his eye , he saw Hookum Singh , a giant Sikh capable of carrying a barrel of powder on his back , stagger after Harry Dunstaple , emptying the powder in piles at the corners of the Cutcherry building and around pillars and supports . |
| 4 | Arctic Call is often let down by his jumping and with a question mark over his race fitness I prefer BELMOUNT CAPTAIN . |
| 5 | Herbert 's eccentricity was to dress as a tramp , and his appearance was further affected by his blindness and by a piebald hair coloration , after an early attack of alopecia . |
| 6 | I feel so close to God , so inspired by His Spirit that in a sense I am God . |
| 7 | The creature , although ugly , was intelligent but when he was rejected by his creator and by the people he helps ; he became an outsider who turned to violence and sought revenge on his creator . |
| 8 | Brought up by an agnostic father , he was introduced to church life by his wife and by 1899 he was a trustee of Dursley Congregational church and a keen supporter of Nonconformity in general . |
| 9 | Peter Gabriel 's commitment to world music is well known : here the political elements in his work , usually understated , were pushed well forward so that you wound up as moved by his concern as by his skill . |
| 10 | She was as thrilled by his daring as by his actions . |
| 11 | The final verdict has to be that the underlying intelligence of the man , for all his shrewdness , combativity and skill in a car , was insufficient to match an ambition that was almost forced upon him by his milieu , by his family and by his status as a Brazilian national hero . |
| 12 | Jim was an extremely nervous child and was subjected to bullying , both by his family and by his peer group . |
| 13 | He was a giant of a man and did the work of three , and when someone flagged with exhaustion he would appear like a genie by his side and with a quiet word help him over the temporary crisis . |
| 14 | He has a way of standing with his hands by his side or behind his back , as if he does n't know what on earth to do with them . |
| 15 | Driven to fury by his goading and by her own uncontrollable reactions to him , Shannon all but spat the words . |
| 16 | The male nurse was totally overwhelmed by his job and by his new trousers which , being a couple of sizes too large , kept threatening to drop to half-mast . |
| 17 | As his own prose essays on ‘ Nature ’ were being admired by the adolescent girls in the Young People 's Guild at the Unitarian chapel , and approved by the minister , by his father and by Ashcroft Noble , and eventually published in sectarian and national journals , Edward discovered the English poets , first slowly under imposition and then , in a rush , in his father 's wide-ranging library . |
| 18 | The king was more distressed by his death than by that of any other person except his own sister , and it seems certain that Berkeley would have received further advancement had he lived . |
| 19 | He announced that he was prepared to admit that the invisible undetectable substance existed on the moon , but insisted that it was not disturbed in the way suggested by his rival but in fact was piled up on top of the mountains so that they were many times higher than they appeared through the telescope . |
| 20 | Her nipple was hard and swollen in Luke 's mouth , its hot stinging ache too much like pleasure , and she knew herself doubly degraded , by his kiss and by her own response to it , the pleading curve of her body as she pressed herself into his mouth a flagrant denial of the protest screaming in her mind . |