Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mike said , ‘ TCT are doing a sequel and a prequel to ‘ T is ’ and bringing them out at the same time . ’ |
| 2 | I was getting DF118s — painkillers but they knock you out at the same time . |
| 3 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 4 | You might need it later in the same flight ; if it is n't there , you ca n't use it . |
| 5 | We still celebrate it much in the same pagan tradition with a heavy indulgence , in gift giving and illuminating Christmas trees in an imitative magic to help the Sun regain its strength . |
| 6 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 7 | The state of mind of day-dream escapers was not simple and they both believed in their plans and knew quite well that they would never carry them out at the same time . |
| 8 | So basically all I would have to do is take them with me and I 'd bring them home on the same day . |
| 9 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 10 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 11 | At that point we could still take water from the aquifer , but we would have to pump it out in the same way as we would from an unconfined aquifer . |
| 12 | I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new . |
| 13 | Mr McTavish forbore to mention that he had n't made it quite to the same standard as his host but was obviously pleased to be included in the generalization . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had even bought them together in the same store , on the same day . |
| 15 | Assuming that the seller can then re-sell them elsewhere for the same price as the buyer had agreed to pay , the seller will suffer no loss . |
| 16 | This simply involves marking out a small area , collecting and marking all the dogwhelks within it , releasing them again into the same area . |
| 17 | The wrong turns provide additional boundaries and constraints as the exercise proceeds , leading him ultimately to the same goal . |
| 18 | It was a trick , leading him back into the same old treadmill . |
| 19 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 20 | Like those of neighbouring Bouzy , they possess qualities somewhere between the solid , full-bodied and strongly perfumed Verzenay and the smooth , exceptionally aromatic Aÿ but their great strength and vinosity edges them closer to the former than the latter . |
| 21 | John Taub and others at the University of California School of Medicine required subjects to sleep an hour or more longer than usual , by putting them to bed at either II p.m. or I a.m. , but getting them up at the same time — 9 a.m . |
| 22 | Second , the affection for medievalism is literary before it is architectural , and architects themselves invariably refer it back to the same lines from Milton 's Il Penseroso ( c.1631 ) : |
| 23 | Art is not , as the metaphysicians say , the manifestation of some Idea of beauty or God ; it is not , as the aesthetic physiologists say , a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy ; it is not the expression of man 's emotions by external signs ; it is not the production of pleasing objects ; and , above all , it is not pleasure but it is a means of union among men joining them together in the same feelings , and indispensable for the life and progress towards wellbeing of individuals and humanity . |
| 24 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 25 | If you can not leave your children with anyone , find someone else in the same position as yourself and take the babies with you . |
| 26 | None of the usual tricks for shutting off memory would work now ; whatever he did , whichever way he diverted his attention it would only come wandering back , like a man in a maze who continually finds himself back in the same spot . |
| 27 | One person 's hip replacement operation certainly prevents the busy surgeon from doing something else at the same time . |
| 28 | But still United pushed forward , Simpson a free kick went over the cross bar in the twenty third minute and then , just as I was giving a flash to Radio Oxford listeners , United pulled one back on the half hour . |
| 29 | I hit him again in the same place , a little harder . |
| 30 | I righted the wheelbarrow with effort , turned it round , and pulled it backwards up the same yard , but no further . |