Example sentences of "[verb] him by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 2 | ‘ It told me to meet him by the Princess Alice in Forest Gate , ’ he recalls . |
| 3 | The players have now scored 70 goals between them for Rangers in all competitions this season , though McCoist was jocularly chided by his manager as he attempted to reply to the unanswerable question , posed him by a foreign journalist , of how many goals he expected to score tonight . |
| 4 | Mr Seiters said Mr Honecker 's speech was an ‘ oppressive contrast ’ to the challenge posed him by the recent exodus and the upsurge of demands in East Germany for reform . |
| 5 | Even within living memory the following saying was often quoted : ‘ If you find an honest miller you 'll know him by the tuft of hair growing in the palm of his hand . ’ |
| 6 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 7 | Every time he felt himself sinking , Nails ' prehensile toes grasped him by the Adam 's apple and lifted his head clear of the water . |
| 8 | Loretta put down her book , grasped him by the shoulders , and heaved him back into the arms of his tormentors . |
| 9 | Balberith grasped him by the crisp , clean lapels of his waitering jacket and hoisted him aloft . |
| 10 | Athelstan grasped him by the arm . |
| 11 | Attempts to find him by a local Hezbollah cell had failed . |
| 12 | But halfway through the somersault she caught him by an ankle and held him dangling upside-down like a plucked chicken in a shop-window . |
| 13 | Trent caught him by the forearm . |
| 14 | Delaney caught him by the arm . |
| 15 | ‘ Adam ! ’ she screamed , reached out and caught him by the sleeve . |
| 16 | Caught him by the Arran-knit jumper , he did , and flung him against the railings , demanding money . |
| 17 | Middlemass caught him by the shoulders and felt the weight of his head against his chest . |
| 18 | She caught him by the hand . |
| 19 | He caught him by the shirt . |
| 20 | Harry ran and caught him by the arm , clenching his fingers desperately into the folds of the wide velvet sleeve . |
| 21 | You 're a fool as well as surly , ’ said the boy , and stuck his neat , short nose in the air and bounced up from the table in dudgeon , but Harry caught him by the sleeve . |
| 22 | Cranston angrily stepped forward but Athelstan caught him by the sleeve . |
| 23 | OR there 's Gazza ( Paul Gascoigne ) when you grab him by the testicles and say ‘ Can you speak in a bit lower voice ? ’ |
| 24 | I grab him by the lapels , and as my fingers scrabble for a hold I drop my little micro-transmitter into his breast pocket . |
| 25 | Then when he stops , get out the car and grab him by the neck then throw then I . |
| 26 | Philip found him by the door into the yard . |
| 27 | In fact , his second wife outlived him by a quarter of a century . |
| 28 | If you are at all normal , you bypass the urge to throttle him , or to shake him by the head and shout : ‘ What 's that got to do with anything ? ’ , and find yourself nodding in agreement as if he has just proved something . |
| 29 | ‘ Anyway , when it came to it , I did n't exactly see you rushing up ready to shake him by the finger , ’ he said . |
| 30 | But when he made his appearance in the members ’ bar a few hours later , there were others happy to shake him by the hand and talk with him far into the night . |