Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | when you when you knew that he 'd got you by the short and curlies ? |
| 4 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 5 | It had been converted some years before Miss Dalgliesh had bought it by the addition of a flint-faced , two-storey building with a large sitting room , smaller study and a kitchen on the ground floor and three bedrooms , two of them with their own bathrooms , on the floor above . |
| 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 | They had grasped her by the wrists and feet and dragged her to the neighbouring room . |
| 8 | I know my father would raise a terrific stink if I told him the Headmistress had grabbed me by the hair and slung me over the playground fence . ’ |
| 9 | Huy had grabbed him by the throat , lifted him from his seat , and slammed the back of his head against the wall with a force that cracked the plaster . |
| 10 | For some reason she had snatched up her bag as he had dragged her by the stall ; she remembered seeing Matey 's grieving face , Matey 's hand on his arm , Matey saying , ‘ No , Neil , no . |
| 11 | I waited till he had set it by the candle . |
| 12 | It would have been suspiciously obvious parked near nothing but a gap in the fence , so he had left it by the nearest flats . |
| 13 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 14 | And , as the big metal bird had lifted up into the sky , two heavy hands had taken her by the shoulders . |
| 15 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |