Example sentences of "[vb past] he by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 4 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 5 | Balberith grasped him by the crisp , clean lapels of his waitering jacket and hoisted him aloft . |
| 6 | Athelstan grasped him by the arm . |
| 7 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 8 | Trent caught him by the forearm . |
| 9 | Delaney caught him by the arm . |
| 10 | ‘ Adam ! ’ she screamed , reached out and caught him by the sleeve . |
| 11 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 12 | Middlemass caught him by the shoulders and felt the weight of his head against his chest . |
| 13 | She caught him by the hand . |
| 14 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 15 | Harry ran and caught him by the arm , clenching his fingers desperately into the folds of the wide velvet sleeve . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Cranston angrily stepped forward but Athelstan caught him by the sleeve . |
| 18 | Philip found him by the door into the yard . |
| 19 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 20 | Steve Richardson also moved up with a 70 in the company of Jack Nicklaus , who beat him by a shot , the difference being at the 18th , which Richardson three-putted despite only a wedge for his second shot . |
| 21 | When I detained him by a greeting , he looked up a little puzzled , saying that he thought that we lived in Cornwall Gardens . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Prost lost the championship by an even smaller margin the following year when Niki Lauda , his new team-mate at McLaren , pipped him by a mere half a point despite the Frenchman winning seven rounds . |
| 26 | Skilled in the art of clock-making , he constructed , in his eightieth year , a detailed and intricate orrery to replace one which displeased him by the ticking of its wheels . |
| 27 | President Dawda Jawara pardoned 35 prisoners in an amnesty allowed him by the Gambian Constitution , to mark the 26th anniversary of independence on Feb. 18 . |
| 28 | Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened . |
| 29 | I 've burnt half the food waiting for you , ’ Stephen snapped impatiently as she joined him by the smoking barbecue . |
| 30 | Dougal joined him by the cabinet . |