Example sentences of "by the same hand " in BNC.

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1 Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand .
2 And he could recall seeing one or two small oils hung in local restaurants and pubs , slap-dash in technique and economical of paint , but so different from the prettified watercolours that it was hard to believe that they too were by the same hand .
3 The slope of the writing , the way the ‘ i ’ , ‘ t ’ , ‘ j ’ and ‘ d ’ are written , the hooks , loops , twirls and rounded letters , the size of lettering and punctuation , all leave me in no doubt that the two documents were penned by the same hand . ’
4 He tells us that , ‘ with the reassessment of this one drawing in the British Museum ‘ Seated nude surrounded by drapery ’ once a Rembrandt but now a Raven the attribution to Rembrandt of a whole series of nude studies by the same hand collapsed ’ .
5 The council of state was still examining the incident when Carvajal died in November 1659 , according to Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] , after having been ‘ lately cutt ( by the same hand with my selfe ) of the Stone ’ .
6 ‘ There is no doubt , ’ Agrippa intervened silkily , ‘ that Ruthven died by the same hand and in the same way as Selkirk in the Tower . ’
7 Why were its contents not scattered by the same hand that turned the records of the Strategy Unit out of their covers ?
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