Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun sg] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morgan found confirmation of it in the fact that the people he had studied in most detail — the Iroquois — happened to be matrilineal . |
| 2 | But his father caught hold of him by the arm . |
| 3 | She caught hold of him by the hand and half ran , half pulled him across the room to the door . |
| 4 | Rose caught hold of her with both hands . |
| 5 | Referrals by GPs where outcome was informal admission were consistently characterized by familial disruption : indeed only two of these cases were referred where the woman 's behaviour drew attention to her in the wider social environment outside the family . |
| 6 | After Francis Bacon first drew attention to it in 1620 , there was endless speculation on the reason for the striking similarity in shape between the coastlines of Africa and South America . |
| 7 | A fine example of Egyptian art of the 18th Dynasty , Carter himself thought this piece important and drew attention to it in the catalogue that he compiled for the Amherst sale . |
| 8 | In 1939 , Reich found evidence of it by ‘ chance ’ when experimenting with the creation of living cells called ‘ bions ’ . |
| 9 | As she passed through the gate , to walk beside the stream , Bob Lamb caught sight of her from the other bank of the beck . |
| 10 | Occasionally , perhaps once a year , I caught sight of him at Ognisko , the Polish Hearth , in Prince 's Gate . |
| 11 | Halzman caught sight of him in an overhead mirror — there were a number of such mirrors around , speaking as well as any other kind of sound was kept to a minimum in the sonar room — removed his earphones and gestured to the seat beside him . |
| 12 | ‘ I caught sight of him in the garden a moment ago — at least , I 'm pretty sure that brooding silhouette was his , looming in the shrubbery — and he was n't seducing anyone as far as I could see . ’ |
| 13 | I must admit I was , as they say , ‘ struck all of a heap ’ when I caught sight of you in Giles 's arms . ’ |
| 14 | James Macrae was an intelligent boy and as soon as he was old enough , Hugh McGuire got work for him as an errand boy in Ayr . |
| 15 | Somebody got hold of him at Edgbaston Golf Club one morning and asked him if he wanted a job this season — carrying for Brian Harley . |
| 16 | Lee got hold of him by the collar . |
| 17 | I got hold of him by the scruff of the neck and took him along to the police box and rang up for the wagon . |
| 18 | She got hold of him by the hair and dragged him to the police station , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The crew were all clinging on to the side of the trawler and the last men off , Billy and John took 'em They got hold of them by one leg and they pulled them off . |
| 20 | And she got hold of me in her arms and carried me kicking and screaming into the school . |
| 21 | And she got hold of me by the neck like th I told you to go to school did n't I . |
| 22 | In whatever form the respondent 's case is pleaded he must prove not only that the appellants acted fraudulently but also that their fraud caused damage to him by causing the enactment of section 18 . |
| 23 | He played tennis with them under the willow-trees by college , playing not well but with a brisk gusto . |
| 24 | Work on a new constitution began shortly after the June 1990 elections , but political differences within the parliamentary drafting commission delayed consideration of it for several months . |
| 25 | The bantering tone remained in Surere 's voice but he added edge to it for the last word or two . |
| 26 | Her duties over , she played chess with him in the evening , or childish card and board games with him and Matey , laughed , talked and read , in some odd way enjoying herself in this hard life more than she had ever done before in her old soft one . |
| 27 | When it came time for him to be knighted by Henry I in Rouen , he set off for Normandy with a crowd of these young men about him . |
| 28 | He made room for her beside him . |
| 29 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 30 | The secretary entered with the coffee tray and made room for it on the desk . |