Example sentences of "get [pers pn] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 2 | He was pulling him , trying to get him off me — he threw him — he just threw him at the bed — I knew he was all right , he were screaming but I could n't — they were both screaming , Cathy and Gary both , and he got me by the throat . |
| 3 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 4 | But he got his by being murdered . ’ |
| 5 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |
| 6 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 7 | Have you got them by the way ? |
| 8 | And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs . |
| 9 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 10 | You 'd wonder nothing had got him by now . |
| 11 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 12 | Gamely , but a bit limply , Dr Clark claimed they had only got it by getting Mr Gummer ‘ dragged to the House ’ . |
| 13 | Meanwhile man carried on eating , sleeping and working but with the noticeable exception of ‘ getting it right ’ ( sex — just in case you have n't got it by now ) . |
| 14 | Well , some someone 's got it by post . |
| 15 | no , but I could get it on the Tuesday , she said if you had n't got it by the Tuesday , to let us know on the Wednesday |
| 16 | Get them by blasting the goose-neck helicopter that assembles itself before your very eyes ! |
| 17 | So the best thing is , is get him by the scruff of the neck and ask him what 's he gon na do about them things that you fell over twice ! |
| 18 | The fact that he gets it by being told it , as opposed to observing it for himself , is incidental . |
| 19 | and gets it by the throat and worries it ! |
| 20 | We get it by airmail . ’ |
| 21 | I 'll suspect get it by the time they go |
| 22 | and this guy got him by the throat and pinned him to the wall and said Billy shut up ! |
| 23 | " No , I got it by my own self . " |
| 24 | So naturally I had to get it with and it was heavier th I do n't know how much it weighed , I I I got it by the way , in my barn in farm in Indiana , one of the last relics of Brothers . |
| 25 | You know , it was much too big , but I got a stand , you see , got it by the tractor . |
| 26 | already got it by then . |
| 27 | We used to get them by the , twenty at a time all sorts of , because people just absolutely loved |
| 28 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 29 | And how in particular do we get them by communication ? |
| 30 | If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ? |