Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [noun prp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gesturing his captains aside he grasped the Halfling by the shoulder and gently shook him . |
| 2 | In November 1990 , they lined up inside the front door to shake the Majors by the hand ; following an election victory , protocol decrees that Turnbull should lead his colleagues in applause . |
| 3 | THE faint pall of dust hanging over Montepulciano 's precipitous lanes presumably heralds the approaching festival of the arts , directed every July by the composer Hans Werner Henze . |
| 4 | I can not recall seeing any other walkers when I climbed the Ben by the route I have described some thirty-odd years ago although the day was fine and the month May . |
| 5 | This shows Hercules holding the Hydra by the neck of the only visible head with his club raised ( rig . |
| 6 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 7 | In 1955 he was appointed CBE and was awarded a D.Litt. by the University of Birmingham . |
| 8 | Stoddard 's Engineering and Tuners will be well practised at crossing the Atlantic by the time these matches are established and running on the other side of ‘ the pond ’ . |
| 9 | A bomb missed the Southampton by the breadth of the Admiral 's Barge , and another showered the Edinburgh with shrapnel . |