Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The girls want their room doing the same now but I draw the line at our bedroom . ’ |
| 2 | When the marriage is good , a husband may be able to encourage his wife to see the many compensations in store , including the opportunities to explore their own interests and reinforce their commitment to each other . |
| 3 | He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect . |
| 4 | This was the case with a significant number of the girls talking here , for instance , Lorraine and Cathy , both of whose mothers had had children in their teens , and consequently had felt very sympathetic to what their daughters were going through , and Debbie 's mother , who had been more upset because she did not want her daughter to have the same sort of life as she had had . |
| 5 | Only 33% of you let your child do the same . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd like my mother to do the same . ’ |
| 7 | Flagstad gave the songs their première , so it 's intriguing to hear her successor bring the same kind of broad sweep , sincerity of purpose and rewarding breath-control to them . |
| 8 | 6.2 WE HAVE DONE ALL IN OUR POWER TO AVOID INDUSTRIAL ACTION AND CONTINUE NEGOTIATINS , WE ASK THE COMMITTEE TO ILLUSTRATE THEIR WILLINGNESS TO DO THE SAME . |
| 9 | He drove himself hard , expecting his workforce to do the same , but he was quick to provide them with social benefits — housing in 1901 and 1908 , a hospital and benefit scheme in 1917 , holidays with pay , and a consultative board of directors and workers ' representatives in 1927 . |
| 10 | It was a big step to take , but there was no way I could contemplate settling down to bring up my family in London , and I knew my wife felt the same way as she loved the sea and country . |
| 11 | But assuming your resistance stays the same , your resistance is about one mega million ohms . |
| 12 | In which towns in the Tyne Tees TV region does my company have the most/fewest customers per 1000 population ? |
| 13 | Demand for his services exceeded his capacity to meet the many requests and in the second year of the scheme he acquired a car to provide greater mobility . |
| 14 | Does your description stay the same ? |
| 15 | The willingness of part-time farmers to go on training courses demonstrates their determination to make the most of their farms . |
| 16 | Within the overall pattern we must look very carefully for the local variations , realize the implications of both soil and climate , and plan our holding to make the most of the resources . |