Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb past] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 2 | In the next article , I will describe the details of the job , and in another the solutions I found to the many problems encountered on the way . |
| 3 | Some of these stories were undoubtedly true — I definitely knew some lads who played in the same city of Leeds schoolboys team as him , etc . |
| 4 | At the ‘ top end ’ the peculiarly British mutual accommodation and interpenetration of the bourgeoisie and aristocracy has licensed an extension of the term ‘ middle class ’ until there is only a vestigial ‘ upper class ’ against which to draw a contrast , while at the same time there have been successive waves of new recruits which have enlarged the base of the ‘ class ’ : the new groups of professionals , managers and technical experts which expanded from the latter half of the nineteenth century onward with the development of capitalist industry and trade ; the more recent expansion of salaried employment in education , research , health , social welfare , administration and planning . |
| 5 | Secondly , to try to increase the validity of inter-racial comparison we decided to compare arrest rates of Black , Asian and White males who lived in the same small areas . |
| 6 | Several families who lived in the same settlement decided to leave as a result of her behaviour , and others insisted that they would never go to live in the same place as her . |
| 7 | " When you think of the relations we had with the most countries , " said the Queen later , " and suddenly they do n't care to talk to you , or write to you , ask you to come and stay in their country … |
| 8 | Ditto those helpless Englishmen he skittled at the same venue two years earlier . |
| 9 | The enormous increase in the demand for lace was largely due to the fashion for lace curtains which came at the same time as a huge house-building programme , and buyers came from home and abroad to negotiate their deals in the Lace Market . |
| 10 | Simultaneous with the emergence of the swept wing shape and its cambered sails stretched either side of a central spine , there were other innovations which arrived during the same development period . |
| 11 | From this cohort we selected homosexual men who seroconverted in the same study period as the drug users who seroconverted . |
| 12 | But , trace of humour or not , she was in no mood for the antics of Paul Fisher , one of the men who worked in the same department , who , regardless of her repressive glasses and old-maid hairstyle , was forever ready to make advances . |
| 13 | Open , friendly and honest by nature herself , she was happiest with others who acted in the same way , but Adam Burns was a riddle she doubted she would ever find the answer to . |
| 14 | The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state . |