Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] by [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 2 | They could still manage Abends , wenn wir schlafen gehen , taught them by the nuns as a party piece , and then , indeed , they sounded like angels , though angels without much grasp of the words after the second line . |
| 3 | He groaned , then grasped her by the buttocks and lifted her , backing her against the wall , thrusting up into her once , twice , a third time before he came explosively , feeling her shudder violently against him . |
| 4 | He grasped her by the shoulders , his fingers biting in , through the thinness of her top . |
| 5 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 6 | Middlemass caught him by the shoulders and felt the weight of his head against his chest . |
| 7 | OR there 's Gazza ( Paul Gascoigne ) when you grab him by the testicles and say ‘ Can you speak in a bit lower voice ? ’ |
| 8 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 9 | Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists . |
| 10 | She gasped as Nicolo reached out and caught her by the shoulders . |
| 11 | She cried out as he caught her by the shoulders . |
| 12 | Leonora turned away blindly , and Penry caught her by the shoulders , forcing her round to face him . |
| 13 | Damian released Tony with a violent shove , strode to Rachel , caught her by the shoulders , his face fierce . |
| 14 | At Plowden was a road bridge built of transverse timbers with gaps in between ; it was here , on one of our journeys , that we sighted a cow with all four legs fallen through the gaps and its horns waving over the line ; Cadwallader ( the guard ) had had to pull it by the horns with main force while the station master sat on its head and Whitaker slowly drew the coaches past . |
| 15 | They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it . |
| 16 | Richard was quite correct , as technically speaking they were all in harbour , in addressing them by the names of their craft . |
| 17 | Dismissing all but a single guard who was burdened with a lantern on a pole , he began to lead them by the bridges and passageways which cut across the streets in a way which was arguably more direct and certainly less likely to be barred by persistent celebrants . |
| 18 | And she goes up to the two blokes and she grabs them by the balls and goes mm not bad , nice butt , you know ? |
| 19 | Rather than locking himself in his bedroom staring mournfully out of the window , Lemn reaches out to his audience , grabs them by the lapels , rapping and ranting his bitter sweet rhyming couplets . |
| 20 | He moved with incredible speed , seizing her by the shoulders and propelling her towards the closed door , a hard violence etching the bones of his face into a mask that would have just done justice to a Viking warrior at his most rapacious . |
| 21 | Or perhaps it could be the heart-stopping finale where they finally , sorry , break the ice , and after a quick peckeroo execute the near impossible Pamchenko manoeuvre ( basically he grabs her by the feet and spins her in increasing circles , and she prays he does n't let go ) . |
| 22 | She instantly jumped into the boat in which her father was seated , and seizing him by the breasts of his coat , motioned him to return to the shore . |
| 23 | Some people have already done it by the looks of things , only they have n't changed it . |
| 24 | Observing that " governments of the world stand in danger of sabotaging the hope of a new era of human rights " , it asserted that " some are sabotaging it by the violations they commit directly , others by the selectivity with which they exert their influence " . |
| 25 | and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it . |
| 26 | Rose ate hers by the machines which by now were hungry fur oil . |
| 27 | It would be bad psychology to tell Lou that she had been shown them by the police . |
| 28 | The two biffos would have come sneaking through the door , rubbing their hands and telling themselves they 'd got me by the balls , and I 'd have pointed the extinguisher and put out their fire . |
| 29 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |
| 30 | And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds . |