Example sentences of "[vb past] i by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have sometimes gone into it when the King was absent from Delhi and once pretty far I thought , for the purpose of giving my advice in the case of a great lady so ill that she could not be moved to the outward gate ; but a Kachemire shawl covered my head , hanging like a large scarfe down to my feet , and a eunuch led me by the hand , as if I had been a blind man . |
| 2 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 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 | He pushed his horse nearer and grasped me by the arm , his long dark face , usually solemn , wreathed in smiles . |
| 5 | She grasped me by the hand . |
| 6 | He grasped me by the shoulder . |
| 7 | Benjamin grasped me by the arm . |
| 8 | It just caught me by the scruff of the neck and practically hammered my guts out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ God bless you ! ’ she said with feeling , and shook me by the hand . |
| 11 | I woke up when someone shook me by the shoulder . |
| 12 | His invincible capacity for making friends soon prevailed , however , and , as he explained to Southey , ‘ they all except the Parson shook me by the hand , and said I was an open hearted honest-speaking Fellow , tho' I was a bit of a Democrat ’ . |
| 13 | And he shook me by the throat |
| 14 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 15 | ‘ On my first day the Prime Minister shook me by the hand . |
| 16 | Dorje greeted me at the bottom and pulled me by the hand across the slabs of ice which had cracked into pontoons , barely locked together . |
| 17 | ‘ I was walking down Piccadilly in 1973 with the woman who was later to become my wife when she grabbed me by the arm and steered me into St James 's church to see the carvings ’ . |
| 18 | He grabbed me by the throat and began throttling me , all the while demanding her address . |
| 19 | The driver grabbed me by the shoulder and asked for my fare . |
| 20 | ‘ Then , late in the game , Ray Wilkins grabbed me by the shirt and threw me to the ground with a judo throw . |
| 21 | Welford said : ‘ He grabbed me by the lapels and cuffed me across the face , but I shielded myself from the rest of his blows . ’ |
| 22 | But I did get another tingle of excitement when I swam a shade too near a jagged reef , and she grabbed me by the shoulder to pull me away . |
| 23 | As weird Norman Bates was climbing the stairs in that awful , old dark house , the tension was so frightening that I almost screamed aloud , when my then boyfriend grabbed me by the arm and said : ‘ Let's watch horror films together for the rest of our lives ! ’ |
| 24 | He grabbed me by the arm . |
| 25 | He was looking at me as if he really hated me ; he seized me by the shoulders and pushed me over to the bathroom mirror . |
| 26 | Well , it did n't do them much good May Lee came and rescued me In fact she seized me by the arm ‘ Well ? ’ she said |
| 27 | My master seized me by the arm and pulled me over . |
| 28 | The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden . |
| 29 | I could have sat and stared all evening but Benjamin suddenly realised the drift of my eyes as well as my lechery and , at the appropriate time , seized me by the arm and hustled me from the hall . |
| 30 | He seized me by the arm . |