Example sentences of "by [art] [noun pl] and [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the guards shouldered their bows , grasped Twoflower by the elbows and lifted him off the ground . |
| 2 | So what he had to do , the the the the customer in fact , is end up by climbing up the bannister to get to the top so that he could get hold of the lad that was at the top get hold of him by the feet and pull him upwards and over and er finally free the man at the bottom . |
| 3 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 4 | The tiny woman , her sharp face a mass of wrinkles , gripped Patrick by the arms and spun him around to face her . |
| 5 | Nicholson reached across the desk , grabbing Hugo by the lapels and pulling him towards him . |
| 6 | Scott grabbed him by the lapels and hauled him to his feet . |
| 7 | She caught up with Pascoe by the lifts and told him she would like to talk . |
| 8 | Twice , when Meredith ordered ‘ Two steps stage left ’ and Geoffrey moved to the right , Meredith came bounding down the centre aisle shouting ‘ Left , left , ducky ’ and leapt onto the apron to seize him by the shoulders and shove him into place . |
| 9 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 10 | Trung grabbed him by the shoulders and turned him bodily in the direction of the village . |
| 11 | The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper . |
| 12 | One distinguished scientist was so indignantly incredulous that he seized Galambos by the shoulders and shook him while complaining that we could not possibly mean such an outrageous suggestion . |
| 13 | 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 . |