Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] him by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lee got hold of him by the collar . |
| 2 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 3 | ‘ Speedie had hold of him by the neck , he was really mouthing off at him , ’ said one fan . |
| 4 | But his father caught hold of him by the arm . |
| 5 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
| 6 | And she at bed time she gets hold of him by the scruff of the neck and |
| 7 | She got hold of him by the hair and dragged him to the police station , ’ he said . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The move came five days after a finding against him by the Independent Commission Against Corruption , a body which had been established in 1988 by Greiner in order to investigate alleged instances of corruption by previous Australian Labor Party ( ALP ) administrations . |
| 10 | Collected Poems 1909–1935 provoked a respectful response from the critics , although there was a sense in which Eliot was now being taken for granted ; he had been assimilated , after something of a struggle against him by the purveyors of contemporary taste , and could quietly become a monument standing unnoticed by the roadside . |
| 11 | A charge against him by the Privy Seal for usury was apparently avoided by means of a £12,000 bribe . |
| 12 | Friends insisted last night that reports of a bitter row over the Maastricht Treaty with senior ministers , or that the vicious attacks on him by the anti-European Tories had driven him out , were wrong . |
| 13 | He complained of increased media attacks on him by the Moldavian Communist Party under its new first secretary Grigory Yeremey [ for whose appointment see above ] , featuring allegations that his administration was failing to protect party property ; of " back-stage scheming " against him in Moldavia 's Supreme Soviet ; and of his inability to work with republican Prime Minister Mircha Druk . |
| 14 | The king would often reward a family for service to him by the grant of a fair . |
| 15 | Tutilo would be warned of what was in store for him by the end of Vespers , if not before . |
| 16 | The position was that the Food Controller , purporting to be acting under Defence of the Realm Regulations , had imposed as a condition of the grant of a licence to purchase milk the payment to him by the purchaser of a charge of 2d. per gallon . |
| 17 | The Shipping Controller purporting to act under Defence of the Realm Regulations had imposed as a condition of licensing the sale of a ship to a foreign purchaser the payment to him by the seller of 15 per cent . |
| 18 | Charles de Gaulle had wanted such an agreement as a way to maintain French economic links to their former colonies , and it represented yet another important concession to him by the rest of the Six . |
| 19 | In proceedings against him by the Attorney-General it was held in the Court of Appeal that the charge was unlawful and that the defendant was under no obligation to pay it . |
| 20 | At some time he may also have sent an expedition against Normandy which was defeated , and his Helmet coin type , perhaps current from 1003 to 1009 , depicts him in armour ; according to the surviving verse on him by the Icelandic poet Gunnlaug Serpent 's Tongue , the army feared Æthel-red no less than God , and N.P. Brooks has shown that he increased the military burdens on his people by requiring more of his soldiers to wear helmets and byrnies . |
| 21 | ‘ But if there is any doubt about him by the weekend he wo n't run . ’ |