Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gaveston rose and came over , taking Corbett gently by the hand . |
| 2 | The directness of the man , the quiet honesty of his face and manner , confused Edward more by the moment . |
| 3 | Gavin 's eyes shone rapturously as he ran off stage and gripped Josh enthusiastically by the arms . |
| 4 | Selkirk grasped Corbett hard by the wrist . |
| 5 | Then , with a nod in the direction of the railwaymen — ‘ Thanks for your assistance , and for holding up the train' — he had grabbed Shiona unceremoniously by the wrist and was dragging her towards the door . |
| 6 | THE RAW political pressure for an early decision to join the European exchange rate mechanism ( ERM ) was increased at Blackpool yesterday by a coincidental pincer movement headed by Michael Heseltine and the Daily Mail . |
| 7 | West German electors recognize the propriety of indirect election justified by votes given to parties , and might well be surprised that political figures as eminent as Shirley Williams , Roy Jenkins and Enoch Powell could be excluded from the House of Commons simply by the say-so of voters in Cambridge , Glasgow Hillhead and Down South . |
| 8 | Jehan knew that many of the Khans had been won over to support of Artai principally by the knowledge that the probable alternative was civil war , and he shook his head angrily . |
| 9 | Finally Don Marco came rattling down the track in his battered Fiat and shook Haverford enthusiastically by the hand , ignoring the rest of the family . |
| 10 | Breaking away from his fellow navvies he elbowed through the crowd to shake Seb vigorously by the hand . |
| 11 | This situation is probably paralleled elsewhere in the United Kingdom only by the position at Loughborough where students at the University of Technology and the nearby College of Art and Technical College are all members of the Loughborough Students Union . |
| 12 | ‘ Be damned if you have n't grown a few more inches , m'boy , ’ Sir Philip said , shaking Harry warmly by the hand . |
| 13 | He grabbed Joseph roughly by the shoulder as the boy peered in at the window , and pulled him away . |
| 14 | Ockleton sprang from his chair , steered an unerring course through the piles of books and papers that littered his apartment and shook Harry clammily by the hand . |
| 15 | The relevant income has a foreign source and is never remitted to the United Kingdom either by the trustees or by the taxpayer . |
| 16 | Thus productivity is influenced in the UK and FRG mainly by a management factor , the level of expenditure on the R&D worker , and in the USA and Japan by a product factor , selling price . |
| 17 | The doctor drew Nathan aside by the sleeve . |
| 18 | Prince Charles left at 3.03pm , shaking chef Mosimann warmly by the hand as he climbed into his car . |
| 19 | He greeted us effusively , clasping Benjamin warmly by the hand . |
| 20 | Later that day , during the play-hour , I found Burns alone by the fire-side , reading the same book as before , and I started talking to her . |
| 21 | A 77-YEAR-OLD woman was robbed at knifepoint in her home in the Mosspark area of Glasgow yesterday by a masked man . |
| 22 | A new two million pound stable complex … reckoned to be the biggest and best ever built in this country was officially opened in the Cotswolds today by the Princess Royal … |
| 23 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
| 24 | An extant letter of 2 May , written from Northampton nominally by the prince , requests the archbishop of Canterbury to see to the safe-keeping of the great seal , the royal treasure and the Tower of London . |
| 25 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist Tony Dees found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 26 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 27 | But the race was not stopped , and both Jackson and American Olympic silver medallist , Tony Dees , found themselves trailing McKoy badly by the first barrier . |
| 28 | Another powerful factor behind the early success of the Big Four — and the mushrooming of nearly a thousand individual headhunting firms in the USA alone by the mid-1970s — was the scarcity of managerial talent due , quite simply , to the low birth rate in America during the Depression . |
| 29 | A CENTRE aiming to promote the European Community 's research and technological development programme across Scotland and the north of England was launched in Edinburgh yesterday by the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart , seen here taking a well-deserved break during proceedings . |
| 30 | SCOTLAND 'S first guest house run by people with mental health problems was opened in Edinburgh yesterday by the Scottish health minister , Lord Fraser , writes Alison Daniels . |