Example sentences of "[verb] get [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 3 | I 'll suspect get it by the time they go |
| 4 | The belief he gets will be true , because he will have been caused to get it by the very fact ( that what 's in the pot is honey ) which makes it true . |
| 5 | And from then on you 're done — they 've got you by the short hairs . |
| 6 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 7 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |