Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] by [art] " in BNC.

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1 While he was doing this Maggie took a pan of boiling water from the cooker and laid it by the side of the sink .
2 And divided it by the number of samples taken to give us a mean average .
3 ‘ Come along in Katie and sit yourself by the fire .
4 She tells me the ambulance is on its way , then she fetches Ma downstairs and sits her by the Rayburn .
5 Everyone still standing , and that was at least half the passengers , did a little backwards dance and righted themselves by the simple expedient of taking hold of the person or object closest to them .
6 ‘ Adam ! ’ she screamed , reached out and caught him by the sleeve .
7 Harry ran and caught him by the arm , clenching his fingers desperately into the folds of the wide velvet sleeve .
8 I followed her up to one of the other floors and caught her by the elbow .
9 She made for the door , but as perforce she had to pass him he put out a hand and caught her by the wrist .
10 Then , as she skewered him with a look of pure detestation , he reached out suddenly and caught her by the wrists .
11 She gasped as Nicolo reached out and caught her by the shoulders .
12 ‘ Oh , yes , it bloody well will ! ’ he said thickly , and caught her by the wrist , dragging her against his hard body .
13 They 've knocked it , flattened it down and rebuilt it by the looks of it .
14 ‘ My poor dears , come and warm yourselves by the fire .
15 However , she seemed to have forgotten all about it , because she told him to pull up a chair and warm himself by the fire .
16 He pushed his horse nearer and grasped me by the arm , his long dark face , usually solemn , wreathed in smiles .
17 A secondary stage follows after a few more months and manifests itself by a rash on the face and body .
18 Swiftly I bend forward and grab her by the waist .
19 Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I .
20 Indeed , most forms of agriculture do not so much disturb the natural environment as destroy it and replace it by a manmade artefact .
21 She instantly jumped into the boat in which her father was seated , and seizing him by the breasts of his coat , motioned him to return to the shore .
22 Farrar s sentimentality may be excessive but we may envy his freedom to recognize and express childhood affection as well as childhood aggression ( ‘ I 'll kill you for that , ’ said Barker , leaping at Eric , and seizing him by the hair' ( ibid .
23 They chose instead to define only one boundary ( the lower ) of each division and to define it by a " golden spike " ( unfortunately only hypothetical ) driven into the most suitable horizon in the most appropriate section .
24 Finally , at the time of writing , it is abolishing rates and replacing them by a poll tax known as the ‘ community charge ’ .
25 the English working class … can never do anything decisive here in England until it separates its policy with regard to Ireland in the most definite way from the policy of the ruling class , until it not only makes common cause with the Irish , but actually takes the initiative in dissolving the Union established in 1801 , and replacing it by a federal relationship .
26 Owen was keen to show me his new electric racing car set and let me by the arm to his room .
27 She said go now to the electrical desk and you can pay for them when no I do n't want to do that and I made her come out with me and see I picked up those teddies in the bags and I went back in and put them by the electrical desk
28 He jerked her case upright , tight-lipped , and put it by the door for her , but relaxed in exasperated pity as he watched her start to check her handbag for the third time .
29 and then somebody comes and grabs it by the legs and pulls it .
30 Yeah but you see the thing is that if I come and meet you by the time you no point .
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