Example sentences of "both [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry Agombar , 28 , of Bexley Heath , Kent , and Mark Cummings , 29 , of east London , both got 14 years , and Gary Hutchins , 28 , of east London , got 12 years for conspiracy to rob . |
| 2 | They married in England in March 1977 but moved to Ontario in Canada in 1981 , and both became Canadian citizens . |
| 3 | A superiority in either the perception of shape or in the perception of direction , if in fact these functions are dissociable , can account for the left hand advantage in Braille reading found for both experienced blind subjects ( Hermelin & O'Connor , 1971 ) and blindfolded normal subjects ( Smith , Chu and Edmonston , 1977 ; Harriman and Castell , 1979 ) taught to read Braille . |
| 4 | They both produced nationalist movements in the 19th century , perhaps because they inhabited almost the only two parts of Spain to have an industrial revolution then . |
| 5 | We both made new wills last week , in expectation of marriage . |
| 6 | Following their deaths , Ronnie sold Docton to a man who was keen to get the wheel going again and , with Nigel 's assistance and local labour , the second restoration was started and we both made new friends in Steve and Iris Pugh . |
| 7 | Born and dying within a decade of each other , both lacked formal university or professional training , both rejected Christian dogma but felt lost without it , both carved out careers for which there were few models , and both preferred to work with men , refusing to acknowledge the personal benefits gained from the feminist struggle . |
| 8 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 9 | Before they set off up the beach , both bared white teeth in sudden , violent smiles . |
| 10 | Both radiated dangerous amounts of raw enchantment . |
| 11 | We 've seen Turners opposing each other for Australia and New Zealand , Richardses for West Indies and England , Manns for England and South Africa ( they both dismissed each other during the 1948–49 series , but it was George catching Tufty which gave rise to John Arlott 's legendary comment about ‘ Mann 's inhumanity to Mann ’ ) , and yet more Smiths ( T.P.B. and F.B. ) for England and New Zealand and for England ( D.V. ) against West Indies ( O.G. ) . |
| 12 | Key phrases used by Brenda in this part of the conversation , meanwhile , are in Creole : 'im stone black and halfcastes , both used several times . |
| 13 | Hodgskin saw a shameless deception at the centre of Ricardian economics and British capitalism : both pretended that capital was productive and the essential spring to greater prosperity , but , Hodgskin argued , capitalists were always parasitic , holding wages close to subsistence levels and diverting the fruits of labour 's productivity to unproductive and anti-social consumption . |
| 14 | José Mariátegui and César Vallejo , who travelled to the Soviet Union three times in 1928–31 , both played important roles in the foundation of the Peruvian Socialist party . |
| 15 | Oxford United are back on the winning trail but Hereford are still chasing success … they both played last night … |
| 16 | The first MacDonalds fast-food restaurant and an Estée Lauder perfumery in Moscow ( both selling for ordinary roubles ) both attracted huge queues . |
| 17 | Born and dying within a decade of each other , both lacked formal university or professional training , both rejected Christian dogma but felt lost without it , both carved out careers for which there were few models , and both preferred to work with men , refusing to acknowledge the personal benefits gained from the feminist struggle . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course they both seemed nice guys , ’ Gilda commiserated . |
| 19 | ‘ Whether the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel or the Stanze of Raphael should be regarded as the culminating effort of modern art , has long been the subject of controversy ’ ; but they both received double asterisks . |
| 20 | Wain , 23 , of Burnham-on-Crouch , Essex , and Moore , 23 , of Southminster , Essex , both received 20 years . |
| 21 | Wain , 23 , of Burnham-on-Crouch , Essex , and Moore , 23 , of Southminster , Essex , both received 20 years . |
| 22 | The inquest heard they both suffered fractured skulls , probably through their heads hitting the sides of the car seats . |
| 23 | Leyshon and Stokle managed to escape from the burning car , but they both suffered horific burns . |
| 24 | These officers had become aware of the enormous manpower potential among both captured Soviet troops and the civilian population of occupied areas of the USSR . |
| 25 | And they both turned startled faces and looked at her , as she cried , ‘ The man ! |
| 26 | They both faced each other and saluted . |
| 27 | Both showed cytolytic activity towards B lymphoblastoid cell lines ( BCL ) with HLA-B53 when incubated with the ls6 peptide , but not when incubated with the peptides that bound to HLA-B53 from the other three pre-erythrocytic antigens . |
| 28 | They were about to kiss each other again when they both heard another Sunday afternoon walker approaching . |
| 29 | They both ordered soft drinks , but Mr Davies noticed his friend seemed dazed and complained of feeling unwell . |
| 30 | I felt the soap operas were raising issues about how you survived and coped in the late eighties that both addressed political issues and also involved me emotionally , whereas nothing about the formal election coverage got to me at all — apart from the Labour Party Political Broadcast , the first one in history to be repeated by popular demand ! |