Example sentences of "[noun prp] by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A video recording of a visit made to North Korea in mid-May by the Director-General of the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) , Hans Blix , and a team of inspectors , was made public on June 3 . |
| 2 | He was about to lead Sir John through the wicket gate to the priest 's house when a dark shape jumped from the shadows and grabbed Philomel by the bridle . |
| 3 | Annabel appeared too , tugging that awful Kezia by the hand . |
| 4 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |
| 5 | FEELING sorry for poor old George ‘ Punchy ’ Walker , so brutally deprived of his role as chairman and chief exec of Brent Walker by the rest of the board ? |
| 6 | Business was brisk , shopkeepers even running out to grab Corbett by the arm and offer a pie , a piece of cloth , fresh fish from the Firth , almonds , nuts and raisins brought in from the nearby port of Leith . |
| 7 | The captain took Corbett by the sleeve , led him over to them and tapped one of the players on the shoulder . |
| 8 | Müller caught Eloise by the elbow . |
| 9 | Renamed the Communist Party of Slovakia " Party of the Democratic Left in October 1990 , it had become simply the SDL by the end of the year . |
| 10 | In March , a limited edition of the Frank Wootton fine art print ‘ Adlertag , 15 August 1940 ’ was signed at RAF Biggin Hill by the artist and six Battle of Britain pilots . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
| 12 | The tsar expressed his annoyance by a gesture ; he repudiated the free-port status which had been given to Batum by the Treaty of Berlin . |
| 13 | Glasgow and Edinburgh cars , both dating from 1948 , seem quite at home in Fleetwood by the Parish Church during a tour in 1984 . |
| 14 | I did the walk last summer on a fine sunny afternoon , leaving Malham by the beck that runs from the village to the pretty little waterfall at Janet 's Foss . |
| 15 | At present , there is little to suggest continued occupation at Ilchester by the time of full Saxon penetration in the seventh century . |
| 16 | If one attempts to judge Mandela by the company he prefers to keep ( a reasonable test of a politician ) the mystery deepens . |
| 17 | Mr Robertson QC cited examples from UN practice , such as the eight-hour visit to Indonesia by the Attorney General of Kenya following the Dili massacre , and from other intergovernmental agencies , such as the drafting of the recent Seychelles constitution , to illustrate his point . |
| 18 | Important commodities were spices , the control of which was largely responsible for European involvement and exploration leading to the Spanish and Portuguese colonizations and ultimately to the Dutch monopoly of nutmegs and cloves in Indonesia by the end of the eighteenth century . |
| 19 | The SLORC also announced on Sept. 6 that four NLD officials had been arrested in Mandalay in connection with " disturbances " in the city on Aug. 8 [ see p. 37655 for reported killing of demonstrators in Mandalay by the security forces in early August ] . |
| 20 | After the 1988 Education Reform Act , the primary team expanded further to accommodate the additional responsibilities placed on LEAs by the Act . |
| 21 | But aside from this , and not forgetting the important duties laid on LEAs by the Education Act 1981 in relation to children with special educational needs ( discussed in Chapter 4 ) , there was little prescription . |
| 22 | Joshua grabbed Hyacinth by the arm — she had been looking as if she were about to attack her victim 's other eye — and steered her away . |
| 23 | By the time that the decision was taken to challenge the United States by the installation of missiles in Cuba ( probably in early July 1962 ) the USSR had been forced to revise its optimistic view . |
| 24 | The loss in remittances from workers in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States by the end of 1991 was expected to be in excess of US$150 million . |
| 25 | Pastrami , made famous outside the United States by the television series Kojak , in which the hero ate this meat on rye bread , is salted and spiced brisket of beef . |
| 26 | The United States ' Constitution includes the clause ( in the Tenth Amendment ) that ‘ The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution , nor prohibited by it to the States , are reserved to the States respectively , or to the people ’ . |
| 27 | Erm now what powers are given to the president of the United States by the constitution of the United States ? |
| 28 | Within the specialty of mental health the central coordinating function was first recognised formally in the United States by the Community Mental Health Centers Act ( 1963 ) and its 1975 amendments , which explicitly required the centres to link with other agencies providing care for long term patients . |
| 29 | From the roadside a short distance west of Blindbeck Bridge , a cart track branches off at a tangent and climbs easily to the shallow depression between Barbon Low Fell and Barbon High Fell , having the stream ( named as Aygill by the Ordnance Survey and as Barkin Gill by the caving fraternity ) away on the left . |
| 30 | She 'd had no idea what the house looked like , until she was going through that wooden gate when , holding Millie by the hand , she espied it in the distance . |