Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 2 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 3 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 4 | I meant not in the same way . |
| 5 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 6 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 7 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 8 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 9 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 10 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 11 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 12 | She talked freely about the many young men she and Sarah had been out with , and sometimes had the women in fits of laughter , but she never mentioned John . |
| 13 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 14 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 15 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 16 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 17 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 18 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 20 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 21 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 22 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 23 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 24 | After all , they started out from the same nest of opportunities as the rats who are now fatter . |
| 25 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 26 | But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them . |
| 27 | However , they went along with the many changes in the hope that the increasing emphasis on training might help our young people to find jobs . |
| 28 | They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas . |
| 29 | Fortunately , Dod and Chase had been provided with camping stools and although Dod 's creaked a bit under his weight , it did mean they stayed roughly in the same place . |
| 30 | They parted eventually on the same curious , jovial note , and Nicholas returned to his villa . |