Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The fish tend to spawn all around the same time and pay attention to their own broods — equally the parents will see off any attempt by another pair to eat their brood . |
| 2 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 3 | Er if you want to go back to the same people . |
| 4 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 5 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 6 | This determines the level of the water in the cistern so it needs to go back to the same notch |
| 7 | ' 'Lo , Olga , ’ she said mechanically and moved to pass out of the same door ; but Mrs Stych wanted to show off her outfit . |
| 8 | To acknowledge hunger ( which is not a disease but a social illness ) would be tantamount to political suicide among leaders whose power has come traditionally from the same plantation economy that produced that hunger in the first place . |
| 9 | I 'm aware that we are in very subjective territory here and I have already confessed where my own preferences lie , but I 'm not alone in my opinion that the 80R 's channel two falls short of the mark , because every one of us here has come away with the same opinion . |
| 10 | Unemployment , in contrast , has risen sharply during the latter part of the period , in terms of both numbers and rate ( see Figure 2.1(b) and ( c ) ) . |
| 11 | Penguin has a brand new series of ready Readers , a mixture of classic and modern stories at three levels and designed to lead in to the same publisher 's Simply Stories series . |
| 12 | A second raffle is expected to notch up about the same total . |
| 13 | Moreover the pace of technological change has increased steadily during the latter half of the twentieth century so that the farm worker in turn has had to become more adaptable to successive new innovations . |
| 14 | With everyone that counts stacking up on the same side , only an optimist would fight for honesty . |
| 15 | Mr Watson said : ‘ It is the intention of Coun Garvey as long as he retains control of his private prosecution to seek that it be directed to the crown court on the basis that the allegation against him is heading towards the crown court and it would be sensible to have the two alleged criminal acts tried arising out of the same incident tried before the same court . ’ |
| 16 | However , the northern geometric deigns , again , appear to owe little to the latter . |
| 17 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 18 | It is a poem which , although at first in its language and meaning I admittedly find a little daunting , I enjoyed pondering over very much and genuinely hope to read more by the same , as yet , anonymous author . |
| 19 | He 'd danced here on the same legs that now lay dead beneath him , while Sartori had told him how he planned to take this wretched Dominion , and build in its midst a city that would shame Babylon ; danced for sheer exuberance , knowing his Maestro was a great man , and had it in his power to change the world . |
| 20 | Fiona , whose businessman husband Rod Potts lives in Cumbria , plans to turn in at the same time as her baby daughter Natasha . |
| 21 | This is an eminently Basque town and the one I would choose to stay in of the several alternatives along this coast ; it is more intimate than Bayonne , less pompous than Biarritz and livelier than Hendaye . |
| 22 | The criteria for an Order for Consolidation , which may be made on application or by the court , are the same as for joinder of parties , viz a common question of law or fact , the relief sought arises out of the same transaction , or , " it is desirable " for " some other reason " . |
| 23 | She hated having to scan it in reverse rather than just rewind to go back to the same sequence the girl had been watching when she came in but Jezrael had n't thought to check the counter . |
| 24 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 25 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 26 | I have enjoyed the closest possible co-operation with Chancellor Kohl in the past year and I intend to continue to do so in the same capacity in years to come . |
| 27 | The BBCBASIC(Z80) programs that use these routines should move HIMEM down to the same value before they PROC_load the assembly code routines into the address at which they were originally assembled . |
| 28 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 29 | A maid jumped and began to scream shrilly on the same note as her mistress . |
| 30 | Harry watched it until it had turned into Emlyn Square , then began walking unsteadily in the same direction . |