Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the two fish trades came under the same livery company , they may be considered as one ; grocers , bakers and haberdashers came next with a median of £26.13s. 4d. , closely followed by the dyers on £25 . |
| 2 | In a series of consecutive sections the hybridization signals observed with the human CFTR and hisD probes colocalized to the same airways and airspaces ( Fig.2 a-f ) . |
| 3 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
| 4 | Masons came under the same heading . |
| 5 | Do you find that , as Adrienne Rich wrote of Marie Curie , ‘ her wounds came from the same source as her power ? ’ |
| 6 | Here there was room to have a dig at ‘ trade unionists … too , screaming abuse and interfering with others on their way to work ’ , alleging that excitement on picket lines and at rock films amounted to the same thing : ‘ These are all manifestations of the primitive herd instinct . ’ |
| 7 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 8 | Parallel procedural changes occurred at the same time in the Senate , but other factors were at work there too . |
| 9 | Several other firms emerged at the same time and by the same process , such as Lamalie Associates in 1967 from Booz , Allen & Hamilton , and Ward Howell and Canny Bowen , in 1951 and 1954 respectively , from McKinsey . |
| 10 | The women in this book fall essentially into two groups — those who come directly from certain peasant societies of India , Pakistan and Bangladesh and those whose families migrated from the same peasant backgrounds first to East Africa and then to Britain . |
| 11 | Agnes Baines , 81 , who lives on the farm , described how flames leapt from the former cowsheds on Old Hall Farm , The Heath , Tendring . |
| 12 | Although it is doubtful that throughout the middle ages masters and servants ate at the same table , above and below the salt , as the Victorians supposed , the Gothic hall , entered directly from the outside world and accommodating every social rank , symbolized their ideal of social integration . |
| 13 | Although all these theories flourished during the latter half of the nineteenth century and the early decades of the twentieth , the links between them are not simply the product of historical circumstance . |
| 14 | After twenty minutes , three trains arrived at the same time . |
| 15 | Sales rose 11 p.c. to £314m in 1991 and profits grew at the same rate , to £13.4m before taxation . |
| 16 | Two wyverns fell on the same night and after the Emperor 's death the aerial attacks gradually subsided and the siege settled down into a protracted stalemate . |
| 17 | Employment in construction fell by 7000 over the period and employment in transport and communications fell by the same amount . |
| 18 | The reason the two items appeared on the same day is your Editor 's responsibility . |
| 19 | The arguments propounded by the former group vary . |
| 20 | Other great cities went in the same direction , without any questions being asked in central government , or by the opposition , about the electoral system . |
| 21 | It has since been pointed out by Digby McLaren ( 1970 ) that many other groups disappeared at the same level or underwent traumatic changes . |
| 22 | The general run of shoppers would not believe that the two girls came from the same family . |
| 23 | In contrast , peptides eluted by the same method from an HLA-B8 transfectant showed anchor residues at positions 3 and 5 ( ref. 54 ) . |
| 24 | This happened typically where both generations participated in the same family business : most often , but not always , a small farm or croft . |
| 25 | Paternal authority was basic to the Zuwaya image , for loyalties depended on ancient domesticities : it was because your ancestors and his ancestors lived in the same household , under the same authority , that you owed another loyalty ( unless , as happened , you were in dispute with him , in which case those old fraternities marked the division between the two of you ) . |
| 26 | Earlier today a lorry driver suffered serious injuries when four heavy goods vehicles crashed on the same stretch of road . |
| 27 | And earlier a lorry driver suffered serious injuries when four heavy goods vehicles crashed on the same stretch of road . |
| 28 | The children persisted with the same piece of writing from week to week , taking up from where they had left off usually without a murmur . |
| 29 | It is a point made so many times by so many people that it has almost lost its meaning : even if all children went to the same nursery , primary and secondary schools , their examination performance and hence their entry to higher education establishments and eventually to well-paid jobs will still vary according to their family background . |
| 30 | Like the case , some years ago , when two men died in the same way from similar stab wounds on the same day in the same street . |