Example sentences of "i [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're erm , I erm , said goodbye come and pick me up by the school . |
| 2 | He yanks me up by the hair . |
| 3 | my dad this morning he woke me up by pulling me up by the hair , bashing my face into the pillow a couple of times , I just looked at , then go , and I looked at him |
| 4 | But when I started walking across the table to the farmer , his youngest son , a boy of about ten , picked me up by the legs . |
| 5 | This brought the chucker-out to see what the commotion was about , but luckily he could n't tell what row it had come from because the old woman snatched me up by the hem of my frock and sat me on the seat . |
| 6 | Scamp turned to reach down into one of the boxes of groceries that were scattered over the floor but I did n't see what he was after as Nevil was lifting me up by the shoulders . |
| 7 | mother took me back by the hair |
| 8 | I 've worked out that a rent of tenpence a week on each log cabin , or sixpence for each bunk in a dormitory , will just pay me back by the end of this contract . |