Example sentences of "him by [verb] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 2 | The 1976 act spoke of a person who died from ‘ personal injuries sustained by him ’ and Lord McCluskey said : ‘ In my view it is clear that the whole phrase is perfectly apt to include injuries inflicted to the person of a child immediately before his birth and continuing to have their effects on him by impairing his physical condition at and after the time of his birth . |
| 3 | Now Craganour had gone half a length up , but Aboyeur fought back as Piper sought to straighten him by taking his whip in his left hand and applying it liberally . |
| 4 | We are not insulting God but bringing glory to him by taking his Word as the stable , authoritative truth it is . |
| 5 | She would n't have upset him by taking his dog for a walk , that was for sure . |
| 6 | He would cajole , flatter and persuade congressmen to support him by using his wide knowledge of their attitudes , constituencies , prejudices and personal backgrounds . |
| 7 | While he does the latter , his brother , whose name means " deceit " , trumps him by stealing his trousers from him , much to Travers 's amusement and Haimet 's embarrassment . |
| 8 | Grace Road has a ‘ starless ’ society now , though that may change in time with the development of 20-year old Ben Smith , who justified the high opinions held of him by making his maiden first-class century in the first game of the season . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Luke 's arms came round her as if she had summoned him by saying his name , and she could n't continue . |
| 11 | As the patient stands up , he practises bringing the ball back towards him by bending his elbows with good control . |
| 12 | Leeming tried to speak , but Duncan silenced him by putting his finger to his lips to soothe him , to help relax him . |
| 13 | I 've enjoyed having you here , and in a small way it will sort of thank David , make it up to him by having his granddaughter to stay . |
| 14 | THE FUTURE of China 's conservative Premier , Li Peng , was thrown into doubt yesterday when the country 's normally tame parliamentarians rebuffed him by rewriting his government report . |
| 15 | And , if we can understand and thus make use of Adorno only by historicizing him , we can go beyond him by historicizing his historicism , which reacted to the shocks of Fascism , the demoralization of the Left and the rapid consolidation of administrative capitalism by assuming that past popular cultural traditions had been not merely damaged but shattered , and which asserted a single progressive cultural trajectory , developing from radical bourgeois art ( Beethoven 's , for example ) through to modernism . |