Example sentences of "[verb] [art] [det] [noun] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night . |
| 2 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 3 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 4 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 5 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 6 | Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H . |
| 7 | I made the same mistake that I make , year after year . |
| 8 | Malcolm Smith , who runs the noted Jencra herd at Stoke on Trent , paid 7,500gn for Jim Goldie 's 17-month-old Epatant son , Goldie 's Globetrotter , while the suitably named Goldie 's Goldmine , another by the same sire , made the same amount when it sold in a private deal to David Dick of Mains of Throsk , Stirling , and Archie McGregor , Allanfauld , Kilsyth , after being turned out of the ring unsold at 7,200gn . |
| 9 | Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier . |
| 10 | Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power . |
| 11 | The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall : |
| 12 | Using the same forthrightness as her brother , she took Hilary 's arm in a firm grip and began walking back to the house . |
| 13 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 14 | Well , she 's done it in Gods go a'begging , using the same Watteau that we liked so much with the columns and the landscape in the background . |
| 15 | In the long term , I can imagine using the same factories if we use the same platform and fit many of the same parts . |
| 16 | It is time MPs were given the same protection so they can vote without fear of reprisals . |
| 17 | Thus a program was written which , given a suggested set of grade boundaries , would evaluate their effects in terms of : ( i ) the numbers of staff by " before " and " after " grade ; ( ii ) the overall percentage upgrading and downgrading ; ( iii ) the percentage changes by grade ( that is the percentage of staff in each " before " grade who are upgraded , who remain the same grade and who are downgraded ) . |
| 18 | So he knows — we know — we thought we knew , though of course we may be wrong — that you should n't make the same mistake as he did , going into acting . ’ |
| 19 | I like to think I 've been helpful to somebody else , so that they do n't make the same mistake as I made , or so that they know the responsibilities they 're taking on if they do have the baby . |
| 20 | the employer is not only provided with maximum assurance that his competitors will make the same settlement that he does ; he is also assured that his competitors will be shut down … when he is shut down , so that he need not reckon on a permanent reduction in market share when calculating the costs of a strike . |
| 21 | That is , he will not make the same judgements as he would make if he were viewing the scene itself . |
| 22 | The right hon. Member for Hertsmere blew the whistle on his colleagues when he disarmingly said that , when he privatised electricity , he would not make the same cock-up as they had done with British Telecom and British Gas . |
| 23 | Now , with sales of around 2,600 cars a year , we could actually make the same profits as we did in 1990 with 3,300 sales . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm going to make sure my own kids do n't make the same mistakes that I did ’ |
| 25 | Walter Luff did not make the same mistakes as his predecessor , and paralleled the extensive improvements on the tramway by a redevelopment office of the bus system , including the sacrifice of two heavily-trafficked tram routes to bus operation . |
| 26 | I know I 've made a lot of mistakes and there are probably a lot of things I should be sorry about but I would n't change my life , I would make the same mistakes because they 've taught me so much . |
| 27 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |
| 28 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 29 | No , the other end , yep I got the same chimney as you |
| 30 | What do you want , you want the same colour as your car ? |