Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Play another sound effect — perhaps a door opening , keys jangling , a car moving off , a bomb exploding , or a dog barking — and it becomes difficult not to link the two sounds together and make them part of the same story . |
| 2 | You know , she 'd say , they cook their cabbage in the same water as the bacon . |
| 3 | In his rage he declared war on the whole animal tribe , swearing that he would exterminate the lot of them , and recapture his daughter at the same time . |
| 4 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 5 | The boy bowed again , enjoying her astonishment in the same way he had enjoyed the applause of the T'ang earlier that day when he had played Tsu Tiao . |
| 6 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 7 | The Gorengs made their home in the former diplomatic quarter , the area which had , to the glee of the Chinese in the Toku-ru warehouse , been accidentally shelled by the malai navy on invasion day . |
| 8 | The proportion of issues in dollars dropped in 1990 to 39.5% from 56% in 1989 , while yen bonds doubled their share in the same period , to 12% . |
| 9 | With the backing of President North , the Josephite Church was building its sanctuary in the former state of Utah . |
| 10 | They persevered and thoroughly deserved their lead on the half hour . |
| 11 | Women even cut their hair in the same style . |
| 12 | The government , publishing its reply on the same day , stated that it had no legal liability to pay compensation , rejected the report 's assertions that actions fell short of the standards appropriate to the regulator , and further asserted that the general handling of the licensing of the Barlow Clowes partnership was careful and considerate . |
| 13 | Nucella , as we have seen , is a genus of temporate intertidal thaids , feeding for preference on barnacles and mussels ( which they attack by boring a hole through the shell of their victim and subsequently inserting their proboscis through the same hole in order to feed ) , and lacking a planktonic phase in their life cycle . |
| 14 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 15 | Horses out riding can show their intolerance for the same daily routine and their need for excitement . |
| 16 | But man also has made his mark in the many ancient monuments , castles and churches that dot the countryside and small villages . |
| 17 | 1869 ] and finish my doctorate at the same time . " |
| 18 | For although the chairman of the University Grants Committee , Edward Parkes , may have received his well-earned knighthood at the end of the year — in a batch meanly thin , as usual , on honours for the scientific community — many of the nation 's academics will never see their profession in the same rosy light . |
| 19 | Price and Hall then worked their double act for Tynemouth again and opened their account with the latter chipping over onrushing goalkeeper Lee . |
| 20 | England 's under-16 side opened their section at the same venue with an impressive 8–0 victory over Scotland after scoring six goals before the interval . |
| 21 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 22 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 23 | And many instrumental solos in popular music owe their form to the same conceptualization . |
| 24 | The political notion of the ultimate sovereignty of the electorate must be distinguished from the legal doctrine of legislative supremacy : the courts owe their allegiance to the latter and recognise no ‘ trust ’ between Parliament and people . |
| 25 | For some types of find , scientific methods are useful in the process of analysis , but most specialists begin their analysis in the same basic way . |
| 26 | The main disadvantage to direct use lies in the fact that supply reaches its maximum at the same time as demand is at its minimum . |
| 27 | Having decided on the story , theme or music , choreographers should consider some vital rules of theatre and construct their ballet in the same way that authors and composers work out their books and compositions . |
| 28 | The Salvation Army in Canada was celebrating its centenary around the same time as Sri Lanka . |
| 29 | It is not impossible that nationalism will decline with the decline of the nation-state , without which being English or Irish or Jewish , or a combination of all these , is only one way in which people describe their identity among the many others which they use for this purpose , as occasion demands . |
| 30 | Central Council would like to express their gratitude for the many generous donations and gifts which help to maintain the high standard of care given to the Home 's guests . |