Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
| 3 | In many households it is conventional for everyone to retire at the same time , and to re-emerge simultaneously in the morning , with scant toleration being shown to individuals who do not conform . |
| 4 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 5 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
| 6 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 7 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 8 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 9 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 10 | If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view . |
| 11 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 12 | Out of each battle , when the person dies , his replacement — his ghost-appears in the same tinted colour and keeps the unit up to complement . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 15 | And I sleep with the same Jew 's son , Ginny thought , whenever I can . |
| 16 | Just a means to get what I want with the least amount of trouble . ’ |
| 17 | And Colin had his done about the same time . |
| 18 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 20 | And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him . |
| 21 | This time lag , however , dies not always occur , as I show in the same study , and we are not in a situation to make the kind of general assumption made by Morgan and Engels . |
| 22 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 23 | pBLcat2 and wild type oligo I constructs from the same experiments are shown for direct comparison . |
| 24 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
| 25 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 26 | ‘ I get about the same as the others . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
| 28 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 29 | Some years ago I protested against the latter which , in my view , vitiates nearly all research in the so-called ‘ science ’ of sociology . |
| 30 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |