Example sentences of "[verb] me by the hand " 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 | She grasped me by the hand . |
| 3 | Rather more , including Pike , came to shake me by the hand and ask me detailed and unanswerable questions about the nature of the extraterrestrials who had landed in the Wimbledon area . |
| 4 | ‘ God bless you ! ’ she said with feeling , and shook me by the hand . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | They were glad to see me and they shook me by the hand and one of them said : |
| 7 | ‘ On my first day the Prime Minister shook me by the hand . |
| 8 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
| 9 | She takes me by the hand , but stops , and kisses Bob straight on the lips . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They hugged each other , and then taking me by the hand we went into the street and made our way home . |
| 12 | Jerry and Anna stood watching the swaying elephants in complete fascination , and Sam took me by the hand across to the cage of a huge lion . |
| 13 | He took me by the hand |
| 14 | A woman hurried over to me and took me by the hand . |
| 15 | Mrs Donnan came and took me by the hand . |
| 16 | Or it can be used to express requests for which one can assume willingness to comply : ( 209 ) ( She ) took me by the hand , and bidding me be of good cheer , set off with Gus in a coach , to pay a visit to those persons . |
| 17 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 18 | Our host greeted us at the entrance gate , shaking me by the hand , bowing to Olivia , embracing the mali and frowning at Balvinder Singh . |