Example sentences of "have [verb] him by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to where he 'd seen him by the fence and looked down towards the woodpile . |
| 2 | I asked the villagers if they had seen him and Mr Natchet , the postman , said he had met him by the front gate when delivering letters about a month ago . |
| 3 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 4 | Huy had grabbed him by the throat , lifted him from his seat , and slammed the back of his head against the wall with a force that cracked the plaster . |
| 5 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 6 | I have seized him by the hair of his head And shoved it into a bucket of water And I screwed his pistols up his arse A dam sight harder than I screwed his daughter ( Rum ti-iddle-ey etc ) . |