Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 2 | The security situation within Kashmir deteriorated during the latter half of 1989 as militant groups pursued their aims in the face of a state government unable to give any effective response . |
| 3 | The previous day members of Raughley SAC ( Sligo ) led by Ian Parke fished with the same skipper and recorded large numbers of coalfish to 8lbs , pollack to 10lbs and ling to 12lbs . |
| 4 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 5 | In a letter confirming their arrangement which Scott sent on the same day , his main concern was to ensure the approval of Stanley and the India Council . |
| 6 | David answered in the same language and then reverted to English . |
| 7 | But the small screen , he insists , has not compromised his intention — to ‘ show once and for all that Shakespeare wrote a domestic tragedy as coherent and layered as anything Chekhov wrote under the same banner ’ . |
| 8 | Corbett sat on the same bench he had occupied the previous Sunday watching the nuns file in . |
| 9 | Former Leicester striker Paul Kitson gave the visitors the lead after 11 minutes but John Taylor equalised on the half hour before Johnson secured Derby 's fifth successive away victory . |
| 10 | Will we ever see Volvos and Renaults made in the same factory ? |
| 11 | It has been pointed out that the modern ostrich and the Cretaceous Struthiomimus lived in the same sort of exposed habitat , and thus evolved similar bipedal running gaits . |
| 12 | In conclusion , Italy and Sicily suffered from the same divisions and neighbourly jealousies as Old Greece , jealousies made more dangerous by racial friction and the threat of native risings ( cranky philosophical activists did not help ) . |
| 13 | The defeat comes just eight days after England lost by the same score to Norway in a vital World Cup qualifying match in Oslo . |
| 14 | ‘ Shannon worked on the same production . ’ |
| 15 | Simon spoke in the same way : ‘ greed and freedom , they 're the basis of conservatism ’ . |
| 16 | ‘ We must consciously set out to win new constituencies of support , ’ Mr Gould said in the same room where five hours earlier his opponent , Mr John Smith , mounted his own challenge . |
| 17 | " The maid is to be dismissed without references , " Katherine continued in the same tone of voice . |
| 18 | A declaration of 19 September 1693 by Anne Mauger , wife of Nicolas , makes clear that her husband and three sons , Nicolas aîń , Nicolas ( dit Colin ) and Louis shared in the same instrument business . |
| 19 | Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment . |
| 20 | ‘ The most fortunate thing was that we found out he came from a village in Essex and by sheer chance Mr Woods came from the same county and knew the same village which gave them something to talk about . ’ |
| 21 | When he next spoke it was about something trivial , and Alyssia replied in the same vein , stifling the burning curiosity to find out what dark secrets he was keeping behind that controlled face of his . |
| 22 | Syl and Robert arrived at the same time and my mother poured them drinks . |
| 23 | Mr relied on the same table to produce a figure of twenty point two five pounds on a life expectancy of fifty five years and accepted a reduction to twenty for the whole life multiplier . |
| 24 | The marriage lasted only a few years , cut short by the death of Eliza ; when Robert returned to the same altar at St Leonard 's in January of 1837 as a widower , he must have had more than a flash of déjà vu . |
| 25 | Then US Open champion Pete Sampras fell at the same hurdle to Thierry Champion . |
| 26 | It says here Mr died on the same day as Mr St er was buried . |
| 27 | The upshot was the establishment of four Councils : one for Scotland ( 1946 ) ; one for the North ( 1948 ) ; one for the Midlands formed in the same year ; and one for the South founded in 1951 . |
| 28 | It is ironic that an article about mountain bikes on Snowdon appeared in the same issue ( May ) as glorification of Ed Douglas 's lamebrain driving . |
| 29 | Dr. Yeats wrote on the same subject three days later . |
| 30 | The United Kingdom announced at the same time that it was freeing Iraqi assets worth £70,000,000 ( about US$126,000,000 ) , but a UK Foreign Office spokesman denied allegations that Richer 's release had been secured by an unpublicised arrangement between Iraq and the UK , said to involve the unfreezing of part of £621,400,000 ( US$1,100 million ) held by banks in the UK . |