Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little evidence that peasant faith declined , but the authority of village priests was progressively undermined : in terms of culture and way of life they differed too little from the ordinary villagers to inspire much respect , and the miserly provision made them by the State resulted in constant friction over money matters between priest and parishioner . |
| 2 | ‘ The middle sister found her by the pool in their garden . |
| 3 | The soldier seized me by the hair and pushed me across the garden . |
| 4 | The stranger had her by the arm . |
| 5 | Since 1964 six polytechnics and colleges have taken the opportunity afforded them by the Council for National Academic Awards to design and develop courses culminating in the C.N.A.A . |
| 6 | You could be you could be lured into a position where if , if the management had you by the tails , thinking along the same line , then you could never be an efficient , you know , negotiator . |
| 7 | A constable had him by the arm and was turning him about — was that all ? no arguments ? |
| 8 | President Dawda Jawara pardoned 35 prisoners in an amnesty allowed him by the Gambian Constitution , to mark the 26th anniversary of independence on Feb. 18 . |
| 9 | I was arrested for riding a bicycle without a rear light ; I woke as an enraged policeman took me by the throat . |
| 10 | The driver grabbed me by the shoulder and asked for my fare . |
| 11 | The leaf-people are also cool , their food being the morning dew and the cool incense smoke offered them by the Chewong . |
| 12 | The part of the Wallowa Valley desired by the Nez Perce in 1873 , and the completely contradictory area allocated them by the Indian Bureau . |
| 13 | Dane gripped her by the shoulders then , and she thought he would shake her . |
| 14 | His Mum took him by the shoulders and turned him to face her . |
| 15 | When the boy gave no answer , the old man took him by the arm and propelled him to the far end of the room , down the narrow stairway , through the tiny door and back to the safety of his own bedroom . |
| 16 | But if he was going to carry the coffin he had to go to the funeral service , so the Church had him by the balls again , as it had , more or less , since he was born . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Some foul glutinous thing got me by the legs and ankles . |
| 19 | A group of workmen crossing over to the Valley just before dawn found her by the shore . ’ |
| 20 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 21 | One large , official hand grasped her by the elbow . |
| 22 | Despite Bob 's protestations that he was staying in the Presidential Suite , was trying to avoid fans , and was actually the ‘ BAWB DYLAN ’ , the callow youth grabbed him by the scruff of his ketchup-stained hooded to and sneered , ‘ Oh yeah , and I 'm the Prime Minister Of Ireland , so I am ’ . |
| 23 | A hand took him by the shoulder and shook him awake , and he started up with a cry , for a moment not knowing where he was or what was happening to him . |
| 24 | A hand seized him by the hair and yanked his head back . |
| 25 | The river dream came to him again , he was wading deep into the current , its coldness griped him by the crutch , shocking him , he must reach that bluish hovering light on the far bank — trees towering above — a house , a tall bulky building towering above him … |
| 26 | The Buddhist revival provided opportunities for upwardly-mobile social groups to gain status denied them by the largely Protestant mudaliyar families of the Low Country , but it was also a way for Sinhalese to challenge indirectly apparent British scientific , economic and political superiority . |
| 27 | ‘ On my first day the Prime Minister shook me by the hand . |
| 28 | The quarry took her by the scruff of her neck , and shoved her face into the screen . |
| 29 | Friedrich Wilhelm of Prussia refused the German Crown offered him by the Frankfurt Assembly because it was offered by ‘ Liberals and Jews ’ and because he felt his cousin in Vienna had a better claim . |
| 30 | My master seized me by the arm and pulled me over . |