Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said , exasperated , that each route led to the same point and that meant back to the Tunisian . |
| 2 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 3 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 4 | Although the figure rose in the latter half of the year as the Gulf crisis drove up oil prices , the growing recession in November and a fall in the volume of oil imports saw the deficit fall to $9,700 million , and to $6,300 million in December . |
| 5 | In other words , the real cost of employing labour rose at the same rate as productivity — over 3 per cent a year ( figure 8.3 ) . |
| 6 | A disappointing result for United who totally dominated the first half and really after seeing that first forty five minutes , it was so difficult to see how they could not win three points , and this encounter against the Charlton side drew on the same number of points as them in the second division table . |
| 7 | It is interesting to note how even euphemisms , symbolizing but not presenting marked terms , can be the more amusing for the conspiracy between scriptwriter , actors and audience in recognizing the term signified at the same time as superficially recognizing that its use is a taboo not to be broken . |
| 8 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 9 | As the two fish trades came under the same livery company , they may be considered as one ; grocers , bakers and haberdashers came next with a median of £26.13s. 4d. , closely followed by the dyers on £25 . |
| 10 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 11 | In fact , the fusion experimental programme was sporadic until 1988 : the main experimental fusion programme began in the latter part of that year . |
| 12 | The previous day members of Raughley SAC ( Sligo ) led by Ian Parke fished with the same skipper and recorded large numbers of coalfish to 8lbs , pollack to 10lbs and ling to 12lbs . |
| 13 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 14 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 15 | In a letter confirming their arrangement which Scott sent on the same day , his main concern was to ensure the approval of Stanley and the India Council . |
| 16 | In a series of consecutive sections the hybridization signals observed with the human CFTR and hisD probes colocalized to the same airways and airspaces ( Fig.2 a-f ) . |
| 17 | David answered in the same language and then reverted to English . |
| 18 | But the small screen , he insists , has not compromised his intention — to ‘ show once and for all that Shakespeare wrote a domestic tragedy as coherent and layered as anything Chekhov wrote under the same banner ’ . |
| 19 | The monastic continuator of the Croyland Chronicle wrote of the same events in hysterical terms ; the northern army moved south like a swarm of locusts , ravaging all that lay in its path . |
| 20 | Corbett sat on the same bench he had occupied the previous Sunday watching the nuns file in . |
| 21 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 22 | The industry remained in the same place even though the conditions had changed . |
| 23 | She giggled when his second attempt ended in the same way , and when he grasped her in a great bear hug , she was able to slip away as easily as if it were a child holding her . |
| 24 | Ironically , the award came in the same week that an article in Time Out magazine revealed an ongoing private dispute between Sellafield and the Central Electricity Generating Board ( CEGB ) about the efficiency and safety of reprocessing . |
| 25 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 26 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 27 | The earliest mention of a ferry at Seacombe dates back to 1515 but its advancement came in the latter part of the last century when the ferry rights were taken over by the Wallasey local board . |
| 28 | Former Leicester striker Paul Kitson gave the visitors the lead after 11 minutes but John Taylor equalised on the half hour before Johnson secured Derby 's fifth successive away victory . |
| 29 | Will we ever see Volvos and Renaults made in the same factory ? |
| 30 | In the autumn , however , the Japanese recaptured the airstrips , and an argument between Stilwell and Chiang led to the former being relieved of his command . |