Example sentences of "[vb pp] me by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The amount of serum given had to balance with the amount given me by the Pharmacist from the records she kept of that given to Ward Sisters for use on the wards . |
| 2 | But JUSt as it IS proper for me to look back to my wedding day as assurance that I am really married , so it is proper to look back to my baptism as a mark given me by the Holy Spirit that I am really born again in Christ , and to the eucharist as a pledge that I do partake of his life , feed on him , and shall in the last day share his resurrection . |
| 3 | Later on I produced a medical certificate , given me by the doctor , stating that my father was ill and that Saturdays and Sundays were the only days of the week I was at home and could help my mother look after him . |
| 4 | She 's got me by the jeans — the hand 's scabby — she 's got some skin disease . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | I began to tremble violently and would have fainted , had he not grabbed me by the elbow and guided me to a low wall , where I slumped down . |
| 8 | Nour had taken me by the shoulders and was pushing me towards the pool . |
| 9 | 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 . |