Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he grabs him by the hair , drags back the head , makes the first deep cut . |
| 2 | I and my new friend then went to Ku where he took another 15,000 pesetas off me — the price had gone up , he said — and he parked me by the dance-floor and said he 'd be back in five minutes . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Alina was holding onto the door , because the six steps that she 'd taken to reach it had almost been enough to exhaust her ; Belov dusted off his hands and came over to her now , and he took her by the shoulders and turned her around and steered her back toward the bed that she 'd just left . |
| 5 | A deeper pink suffused his face , colouring the skin between the freckles of pale orange that the tropical sun had cast there , and he took her by the wrists and said , in English , ‘ Maybe , we 'll see , maybe one day . ’ |
| 6 | His intense irritation with his distant superiors transferred itself with an illogical rush to the silent girl , and he caught her by the arm . |
| 7 | And he shook me by the throat |
| 8 | Pascoe 's colour rose and he shocked her by the vehemence of his refusal . |
| 9 | She tried to embrace him , but he seized her by the arms and shook her till her teeth chattered . |
| 10 | She would have run past him , but he caught her by the elbow . |