Sentence examples for pinching him from inspiring English sources

But with Kurt Thomas behind O'Neal, Marcus Camby in front of him and Sprewell and Rice pinching him from the side, every angle was shut off.

And even though I have a secret signal with my husband that involves my pinching him very hard on the upper arm, a signal that means, "Throw your name at this person because I have no idea whom I'm talking to," my husband always forgets the secret signal and can't be counted on to respond to my pinching, even when it produces a bruise.

One of his early nannies abused Edward by pinching him before he was due to be presented to his parents.

Even when he was held down, T. said, staff took cheap shots -- jabbing him, pinching him and punching him.

She pinches him under the covers and holds back his food.

Strathairn is an attractive, intelligent actor; sometimes, though, I want to pinch him to make him jump, and energize him.

"Sometimes you'd have to pinch him to get him to shut up.

The "storms" of temptation, as he calls them, buffeted him with almost physical violence; voices urged him to blaspheme; the texts of Scriptures, which seemed to him to threaten damnation, took on personal shape and "did pinch him very sore".

Bertie recalls his persecution by a nanny who preferred his older brother, David (the future Edward VIII), who pinched him when he was presented to his parents and who forced him to wear painful leg braces to correct his knock knees.

He told the story of his first trip to Caribou, Me., to harvest potatoes, and the local people, who had never seen such black skin before, pinched him to make sure it was real.

"It's a little bit different in training as you can kick him, pinch him and pull his hair and get away with it but when he is switched on like he was it is nearly impossible to mark him," said the centre-back.