Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 2 | There were several words that meant the same thing . |
| 3 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 4 | Emelia Kanthack commented that she ‘ always approached my East End patients with my very best manners and extended the same little courteous considerations to them that I would have served towards a lady ’ . |
| 5 | The MK II was similar in all respects and carried the same load . |
| 6 | Actually he did n't call it a third round , since he did n't solicit new entries but used the same 63 as for Round 2 . |
| 7 | ‘ I went on a nationwide tour of radio stations and did the same on Merseyside during Radio City 's Pete Price show . |
| 8 | Ann and Beth had married into farming families and had the same careworn faces and workworn hands as had his wife and mother . |
| 9 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 10 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 11 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 12 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 13 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 14 | They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year . |
| 15 | Clare and Sylvia did everything together , wore the same clothes and had the same hair-style . |
| 16 | With an eye on the speed indicator , he eased the main out an extra couple of inches and did the same for the jib . |
| 17 | Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times . |