Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The electronics division of EMI was expected to continue to generate cash , initially at a higher level than the scanner operation and ending up at about the same amount . |
| 2 | And now I had a lovely fellow I 'd grown up with in the same village , the same sort of background , we 'd known each other since we were eleven , twelve , |
| 3 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 4 | The boy goes by at about the same time each day , and he is always carrying a bag . |
| 5 | The last of these classes consists of the famous eight medreses which Mehmed II had built round his mosque in Istanbul : the mosque itself was finished in 875/1470–1 , and the medreses were finished presumably at about the same date . |
| 6 | It 's also a mite expensive , although you should bear in mind that retail prices are deceptive things ; the chances are that after a period of high demand and correspondingly high prices , the cost of the SRV will settle down to around the same as the Clapton Strat . |
| 7 | But we need not go so far as that ; it will suffice to suppose that firms rise and fall , but that the ‘ representative ’ firm remains always of about the same size , as does the representative tree of a virgin forest . [ … ] |