Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [pron] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light .
2 The self-confidence inspired by his Eton and Trinity background may have helped him in the several differences of opinion he has encountered in his life .
3 It is possible that supplies may have reached them by the same inner Asian route by which they imported jade and turquoise and exported silk .
4 ‘ They must have bugged her for the same reason we went to see her : she was somebody unofficial but experienced in underground work — They 'd know they were up against some British group not the CIA .
5 Now if some of the mathematics they had learnt had been relevant to them and interesting to them maybe they would have remembered it in the same way they 've remembered plenty of other things that are important to them .
6 It seems unlikely that William Joyce would not have known it at the same time .
7 Now all of this may well have made no difference to the final result ; the courts reading of the facts may have led them to the same conclusion whatever the meanings given to reasonable and unreasonable .
8 Not even the same matches with the same results would have engendered anything like the same degree of atmosphere or emotion had it been staged at a neutral venue , which is what the situation would be in most years if the one or two weeks idea was adopted .
9 Although politicians at the time would certainly not have viewed it in the same light , with the benefit of hindsight , we can claim that , as both of the main political parties broadly supported Keynesian economics and the existence of the mixed economy , the differences between them were , in today 's terms , relatively small .
10 ‘ If I 'd had three boys I could have fitted them into the same bedrooms . ’
11 I would 've put them on the same level in all honesty
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