Example sentences of "both [vb past] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Wigg 's hostility to both arose from the same cause . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Says Steve of former Laugh In star Goldie : ‘ We both started in the same place , on television . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It turned out we both went to the same school , ’ Vlitos says , ‘ so things got very friendly . ’ |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 9 | We both spoke at the same time , and , inevitably , the same words . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sorry — ’ they both said at the same time . |