Example sentences of "[verb] him by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 2 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Even within living memory the following saying was often quoted : ‘ If you find an honest miller you 'll know him by the tuft of hair growing in the palm of his hand . ’ |
| 5 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 6 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 7 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 8 | Balberith grasped him by the crisp , clean lapels of his waitering jacket and hoisted him aloft . |
| 9 | Athelstan grasped him by the arm . |
| 10 | Trent caught him by the forearm . |
| 11 | Delaney caught him by the arm . |
| 12 | ‘ Adam ! ’ she screamed , reached out and caught him by the sleeve . |
| 13 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 14 | Middlemass caught him by the shoulders and felt the weight of his head against his chest . |
| 15 | She caught him by the hand . |
| 16 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 17 | Harry ran and caught him by the arm , clenching his fingers desperately into the folds of the wide velvet sleeve . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Cranston angrily stepped forward but Athelstan caught him by the sleeve . |
| 20 | OR there 's Gazza ( Paul Gascoigne ) when you grab him by the testicles and say ‘ Can you speak in a bit lower voice ? ’ |
| 21 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 22 | Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I . |
| 23 | Philip found him by the door into the yard . |
| 24 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , when it came to it , I did n't exactly see you rushing up ready to shake him by the finger , ’ he said . |
| 26 | But when he made his appearance in the members ’ bar a few hours later , there were others happy to shake him by the hand and talk with him far into the night . |
| 27 | ‘ I would like him to contact the police incase he can help but also because I would like to shake him by the hand . |
| 28 | I played him by the light of the moon until he was sufficiently exhausted to be manoeuvred into a bucket on the end of a stout rope . |
| 29 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |
| 30 | Taking advantage of the discretionary powers granted him by the tsar , he asked for a treaty guaranteeing Russia 's right to a protectorate over the Orthodox Christians of the Ottoman Empire . |