Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 2 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 3 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 4 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 5 | I meant not in the same way . |
| 6 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 7 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 8 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 9 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 10 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 11 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 12 | Each tier was held in place by tiny press studs which sprang apart at the least pressure . |
| 13 | That is to say , if one made the same measurement on a large number of similar systems , each of which started off in the same way , one would find that the result of the measurement would be A in a certain number of cases , B in a different number , and so on . |
| 14 | Similar doubts were expressed about the study of the environment , which took off about the same time , but this seems to have gained a much firmer academic foothold , despite the fact that such courses range from the physical to the social with , as one CRAC Degree Course Guide put it , almost nothing in common between these two extremes . |
| 15 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 16 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 17 | She talked freely about the many young men she and Sarah had been out with , and sometimes had the women in fits of laughter , but she never mentioned John . |
| 18 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 19 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 20 | Another man who ran off at the same time , Stephen O'Mara , was yesterday still on the run . |
| 21 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 22 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 23 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 24 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 25 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 26 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 27 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 28 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 29 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 30 | After all , they started out from the same nest of opportunities as the rats who are now fatter . |