Example sentences of "to [pron] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |
| 2 | This being the case we can talk back to them on the same basis and presumably they will understand . |
| 3 | and er the people in the flat above us had to pass our door to get to them in the same way that we had to pass the people , tenants below doors to get to their accommodation . |
| 4 | At that stage in my life I could n't take any kind of failure , and so this latter model of womanhood was as unacceptable to me as the former . |
| 5 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
| 6 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 7 | She wrote to me about the many pressures on girls to worry constantly about their looks , and in particular their bodies . |
| 8 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 9 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 10 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 11 | Her instinct is to relate to everyone in the same way . |
| 12 | Now these standards need to be visible , common to everyone in the same job , and fixed , er , like a yardstick , by which the employee can measure his activities for himself . |
| 13 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 14 | I have seen him striding through Soho eating a sandwich and talking to himself at the same time , oblivious to the cars and traffic and noise around him , deep in thought . |
| 15 | He would then be able to judge to which of the latter he could most advantageously give his second preference , and this informed choice could well not be the same as the " blind " choice the STV obliges him to make . |
| 16 | You will have achieved very little if parents sort problems one at a time and keep coming back to you for the same advice for each one . |
| 17 | The three other prints will then be available to you on the same basis and each may be paid for in the same way . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , let's just say that it 's crossed your mind that maybe , maybe if you stay long enough in this place it 'll get to you in the same way as it got to me . |
| 19 | She had reduced the voice to something on the same level of annoyance as a heavy breather . |
| 20 | Pregnancy , however , is a relatively brief and dramatic bodily change , succeeded by reversion to something like the former state . |
| 21 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 22 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
| 23 | Both would involve payment to him of the same sum of money . |
| 24 | Probably his huge bribe was paid to him along the same obscure channels . |
| 25 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 26 | If a third party could not sue for damage caused to him by the former I can see no reason why he should be entitled to sue for damage caused to him by the latter . |
| 27 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
| 28 | He was perfectly amiable to her on the few occasions when they did meet ; sometimes she even felt that he liked her . |
| 29 | She heard the sound of the sea , the cry of the gulls and then her own cry , as he made love to her in the same way as he had done long ago at the Angel Inn . |
| 30 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |