Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time .
2 We asked for nothing but a few gestures —
3 Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time .
4 I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’
5 Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back .
6 Christine let him stew in it for a few moments .
7 to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex .
8 After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’
9 Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way .
10 These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place .
11 Kypov shouted at him across the few metres that separated them , and the breath spouted white from the Major 's mouth .
12 Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) .
13 I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction .
14 She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot .
15 ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’
16 So far , we have argued that people in modern Britain give great importance to their immediate family , that is their husband or wife and children living with them in the same house .
17 About fifteen years ago , we had a Nigerian girl living with us for a few months before her marriage , and she was married from our house .
18 In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them .
19 I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet .
20 But by 1937 , J. C. Pringle , the head of the Charity Organisation Society ( COS ) , was prepared to admit that married women 's paid employment did not necessarily have an adverse effect on the family economy , something that ‘ could not have been said with anything like the same confidence 25 years ago ’ .
21 Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks
22 The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it .
23 Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement .
24 you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time
25 Just to talk to him for a few minutes …
26 And then he looked in her direction , smiled and waved over the woman 's shoulder , continued to talk to her for a few moments , then laid a hand on her arm for an instant and moved towards Helen .
27 you 're not looking at it in the same way at all .
28 It may therefore be necessary to proceed against him under the latter section , supposing that the requisite intention can be established , or under section 5 .
29 This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God .
30 Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) .
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