Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pron] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 2 | Something was beginning to happen to her , an excitement , a wildness that caught her by the throat . |
| 3 | While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink . |
| 4 | And divided it by the number of samples taken to give us a mean average . |
| 5 | ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire . |
| 6 | She tells me the ambulance is on its way , then she fetches Ma downstairs and sits her by the Rayburn . |
| 7 | Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them . |
| 8 | ‘ Adam ! ’ she screamed , reached out and caught him by the sleeve . |
| 9 | Harry ran and caught him by the arm , clenching his fingers desperately into the folds of the wide velvet sleeve . |
| 10 | I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow . |
| 11 | She made for the door , but as perforce she had to pass him he put out a hand and caught her by the wrist . |
| 12 | Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists . |
| 13 | She gasped as Nicolo reached out and caught her by the shoulders . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , yes , it bloody well will ! ’ he said thickly , and caught her by the wrist , dragging her against his hard body . |
| 15 | They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it . |
| 16 | ‘ My poor dears , come and warm yourselves by the fire . |
| 17 | However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire . |
| 18 | He pushed his horse nearer and grasped me by the arm , his long dark face , usually solemn , wreathed in smiles . |
| 19 | Swiftly I bend forward and grab her by the waist . |
| 20 | Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid . |
| 23 | Owen was keen to show me his new electric racing car set and let me by the arm to his room . |
| 24 | She said go now to the electrical desk and you can pay for them when no I do n't want to do that and I made her come out with me and see I picked up those teddies in the bags and I went back in and put them by the electrical desk |
| 25 | He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time . |
| 26 | and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it . |
| 27 | Yeah but you see the thing is that if I come and meet you by the time you no point . |
| 28 | Abuelo Freitas reached out and shook her by the hand . |
| 29 | ‘ God bless you ! ’ she said with feeling , and shook me by the hand . |
| 30 | I pulled Armstrong in behind his car , got out and joined him by the gate . |