Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] in [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years .
2 There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece .
3 I lived in the same house as him once .
4 It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’
5 But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ .
6 I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus .
7 And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him .
8 This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out .
9 I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us .
10 Smith inspected the United Boys ' Brigades of America with her in 1907 but she died in the same year of a tragic accident , not long after their return .
11 Neither did he , for the moment , recognise her own diffidence as an indication that she felt in the same way about him .
12 Yeah because you slept in the same quilt as him , you
13 We lived in the same street .
14 That meant we worked in the same building on different floors .
15 We worked in the same section for a year or two .
16 Though we worked in the same department , I saw little of Daisy , as we were always on different shifts .
17 We lodged in the same street .
18 We stayed in a few bed and breakfasts when we thought we needed a wash , and a few youth hostels .
19 So we , we went away , putting our package together , and we went in we sat in the either end of the table .
20 It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle .
21 They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter .
22 They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair .
23 Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 .
24 they came as the same they came in the same colour mu thing round them we in the red letters saying what they are .
25 Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ .
26 Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days .
27 Herbert Tempest asked readers for information on George Whitbread , a man he lost touch with 40 years ago after they served in the same RAF squadron .
28 Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged .
29 They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays .
30 Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table .
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