Example sentences of "have [verb] me 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 | It was time to gird up my loins , the way the black skirts and white garotte of the preacher 's collar had boomed when my grandmother-who-was-not had taken me by the hand to church so many times . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 5 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |