Object

• body: First she thought she could manhandle the body on her own.

Subject

• steward: He was manhandled by stewards out of his seat and ejected from the Brighton Center.

• guard: They attracted lots of attention from Christmas shoppers, got good local press coverage and got manhandled by security guards at Churchill Sq Mall.

• police: Later another two protesters were aggressively manhandled by police as they blockaded a lorry.

Preposition: into

• position: Sleepers were taken to the railhead on a small trolley and manhandled into position.

Modifying Another Word

• then: The prescription in Leviticus could not have meant the animals were killed beside the altar then manhandled on to it for burning.

• roughly: Why was Paul so roughly manhandled when he visited the club in pursuit of Lucille?

• also: She was also manhandled and dragged off to a cell.

Followed by a transitive particle

• up: Instead, the winch, generator and pump had to be manhandled up the last section.

• down: The Bismarck was still being manhandled down the riverbank.

Preposition: in

• way: I could also see that my son was becoming very alarmed at his mom being manhandled in this way.

Preposition: by

• steward: He was manhandled by stewards out of his seat and ejected from the Brighton Center.

• guard: They attracted lots of attention from Christmas shoppers, got good local press coverage and got manhandled by security guards at Churchill Sq Mall.

• police: Later another two protesters were aggressively manhandled by police as they blockaded a lorry.