Example sentences of "she [verb] him by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She caught him by the hand . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Gently she shook him by the shoulder , and his eyes opened . |
| 4 | She leads him by the hand , and from a distance they resemble those drawings of Christopher Robin dragging Winnie The Pooh along the ground . |
| 5 | I 've burnt half the food waiting for you , ’ Stephen snapped impatiently as she joined him by the smoking barbecue . |
| 6 | He stood there like an idiot as she clasped him by the arms and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 7 | She predeceased him by a year . |
| 8 | She grabbed him by the back of his neck , and scraped her empty glass across his smile . |
| 9 | The nurse and the doctor left the room together for a moment and she grabbed him by the shoulders and shook him desperately , with an air-lock in her throat as though she were in a temper . |
| 10 | Rose went scuttling off to intercept Dieter ; she grabbed him by the hand and drew him towards the tea-table , her bird-like voice rising above the general chatter as she told him what had happened . |
| 11 | She grabbed him by the hand , her eyes frantically searching his . |
| 12 | She took him by the hands and said eagerly , ‘ Don — we could live here — it is right for us — would you like that , Don ? ’ |
| 13 | She took him by the arm and led him unresistingly into the house . |
| 14 | Seeing that Owen was having difficulties in getting used to the idea , she took him by the hand and pulled him down beside her on the divan . |
| 15 | In. , Finally , the boy tried to squirm past her like a silverfish but she had him by the hair and was breaking the rifle over his head and shoulders when my father stopped her . |
| 16 | She had him by the hand by then , and was drawing him in to the hearth , for the early November mist was on his shoulders , and his face looked thin and cold . |
| 17 | He stood no taller than his daughter , probably she exceeded him by an inch or two , but he had the shoulders of a bull , and a great head of brindled brown hair laced with grey , like his short , square beard . |