Example sentences of "[vb past] he by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 2 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 3 | He was created baronet in 1837 , but Sir Robert Peel refused him the Irish peerage promised him by Melbourne . |
| 4 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 5 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 6 | Balberith grasped him by the crisp , clean lapels of his waitering jacket and hoisted him aloft . |
| 7 | Athelstan grasped him by the arm . |
| 8 | The crowd gently goaded him by chanting : ‘ Kenny what 's the score ? ’ and afterwards Dalglish admitted : ‘ I am disappointed we did n't get anything from the match because I thought we played well enough . |
| 9 | Trent caught him by the forearm . |
| 10 | I caught him by cute observation ; |
| 11 | Delaney caught him by the arm . |
| 12 | The endearment caught him by surprise and his face softened . |
| 13 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 14 | ‘ Adam ! ’ she screamed , reached out and caught him by the sleeve . |
| 15 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 16 | Middlemass caught him by the shoulders and felt the weight of his head against his chest . |
| 17 | The question caught him by surprise . |
| 18 | She caught him by the hand . |
| 19 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 20 | Harry ran and caught him by the arm , clenching his fingers desperately into the folds of the wide velvet sleeve . |
| 21 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 22 | Cranston angrily stepped forward but Athelstan caught him by the sleeve . |
| 23 | Philip found him by the door into the yard . |
| 24 | Daisy found him by telephone in Harrogate with the news of Fred 's death and asked him to identify the body for her . |
| 25 | Lancelot Andrewes , who was Hooker 's contemporary and friend , outlived him by twenty-five years and is usually regarded as his intellectual successor in the history of the Church of England . |
| 26 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 27 | Charles outlived him by hardly more than a year : his life was thus in a sense overshadowed by Louis , constantly subject to fraternal political pressure , his kingdom twice fraternally-invaded , his ultimate imperial plans beset by fraternal rivalry . |
| 28 | However , the whole Pierremont extravaganza was too much for ordinary people , and when Henry 's second wife Mary , who outlived him by 28 years , died in 1909 the estate was gradually sold off for housing . |
| 29 | By the terms of his enrolment , there is little doubt that the provision of regular review assessment panels helped him by offering support , encouragement and occasionally chastisement for letting himself down . |
| 30 | 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 . |