Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 2 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 3 | This happened at the same time as parishes were being formed , and it seems to have resulted in the extinction of many churches , not only as private property but also as working churches . |
| 4 | Fifty-three were the sons of MPs ( 18 per cent , much like the 17 per cent of Liberals ) and twelve of these sat for the same seat , although few like Stanley Baldwin succeeded directly ; fifteen of these fifty-three were sons of Liberals , further evidence of the value of recruits brought over in 1886 . |
| 5 | We all came to the same conclusion — the powers that be were determined to make an example of some poor regional company . |
| 6 | and these all came off the same train . |
| 7 | And do you think they all came from the same kind of background as yourself or were they more working people ? |
| 8 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 9 | They all came from the same supplier . |
| 10 | If Mrs Langham is right , then she , the Prince of Wales and Lord Beddington all ate from the same dish . |
| 11 | What was more , when we plotted , not strength but breaking strain , against thickness , we found that it did not matter what the whiskers were made of , for they all plotted on the same curve . |
| 12 | She moved nearer , her silks and veils rustling about her , and we all watched with the same affection that she invoked from family and friends alike . |
| 13 | They all started in the same place as the Beatles … the Cavern Club in Liverpool . |
| 14 | Miriam , Aaron ( 20:25ff ; 33:38f. ) and Moses ( Deuteronomy 34:5–8 ) all died in the same year — on the brink of entry into Canaan . |
| 15 | Originally you were n't really looking at it , five of you all fell into the same trap , you know , they , they get half way through , and they did have something to do and they did sort of start rushing . |
| 16 | We also know that the specialization took place very early in the evolution of mammals and that the ancestors of the main groups that are alive today all appeared around the same time , give or take a few million years . |
| 17 | We all slept in the same bed , and it was so cosy . |
| 18 | No clear distinction was made between the temporal and spiritual privileges of the Church ; they all stood on the same level , enforced by the same sanctions , guaranteed by the same authority , reflecting the same divine ordering of the world . |
| 19 | But before that , ‘ unfortunately , their domestic life was n't very happy and there was a period in their lives when they both lived in the same house but did n't speak to one another . |
| 20 | Wigg 's hostility to both arose from the same cause . |
| 21 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 22 | Says Steve of former Laugh In star Goldie : ‘ We both started in the same place , on television . |
| 23 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ It turned out we both went to the same school , ’ Vlitos says , ‘ so things got very friendly . ’ |
| 25 | You may discover early on in an interaction through words that you share common ground ( that you both went to the same school , for instance ) . |
| 26 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 27 | We both spoke at the same time , and , inevitably , the same words . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm sorry — ’ they both said at the same time . |