Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the Merchant Service , a close friendship usually developed between the Commanding Officer and the Chief Engineer , and on the cutters the Commander usually tried to sail with the same chief whenever possible . |
| 2 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 3 | Even Daddy , wisest and kindest of men , seemed to suffer from the same delusion . |
| 4 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 5 | Stack claim that the gun is balanced for colour as well as brightness of the image but all the games seemed to play with the same degree of accuracy even with a black&white image . |
| 6 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 7 | On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point . |
| 8 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 9 | And somehow all her own reservations and objections seemed to evaporate at the same time . |
| 10 | He happened to work for the same paper which stitched Botham up some eight years ago . |
| 11 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 12 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 13 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 14 | He arranged to return at the same time the next day to set about identifying the traitor in Tuwaithah . |
| 15 | They both began to speak at the same time , and Fen gestured to her to go first . |
| 16 | Again , according to Escoffier himself a Paris factory , the Maison Fontaine took up the canned tomato industry , the whole department of the Vaucluse started to specialise in the same business , and it was only after the events recorded by him that Italy and America introduced their own versions of canned tomatoes . |
| 17 | The pair , both 73 , decided to quit on the same day they celebrated their golden wedding . |
| 18 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 19 | I never thought to find in the same establishment a Gooseneck , a Ramsbum and a Blitherdick . ’ |
| 20 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 21 | Why so many of the other directors chose to sell at the same time is not known to me . |
| 22 | But Stripey rarely chose to sleep in the same place two nights running . |
| 23 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 24 | The reception area , restaurant and bar are furnished and decorated to conform to the same image , conveying an image of discreet , old-fashioned comfort and luxury . |
| 25 | Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved . |
| 26 | These symptoms were present most of the time , but became much worse if Sheila drove the car , used certain aerosol sprays , or had to sit in the same room as someone wearing perfume or aftershave . |
| 27 | As I say , W. wished to continue with the same régime . |
| 28 | in psychology and chucked in electrical engineering and started a psychology course and he had to work at the same time as he studied for some of that time |
| 29 | There were two clues in the problem : first , that the letters had to appear in the same order , which helped you try out possible solutions ; second , the word " descend . |
| 30 | He fell into step beside her and they continued to walk in the same direction . |