Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [prep] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For a moment I did n't even recognise it as the same owl Derek and I had been round to see a few weeks before . |
| 32 | The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates . |
| 33 | Not everyone subjected to a particular odour will however describe it in the same manner . |
| 34 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 35 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 36 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 37 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 38 | With a less diversified business , the likelihood grows that , while he is satisfied with the service he gets , he will keep his business , at least for a period , with the same insurer , and place it through the same broker . |
| 39 | If you or I were to mix mud and water and place it in the same position it would fall off . |
| 40 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 41 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 42 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 43 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 44 | Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time . |
| 45 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 46 | If they are predominantly female , and 83 per cent of part-timers are , the equal pay legislation may entitle them to the same benefits and conditions as their full-time colleagues . |
| 47 | Certainly , these designs were employed for a period of at least forty years , and their designers might not always have seen them in the same light . |
| 48 | If you want two matches to be satisfied simultaneously you put them on the same row in the criteria range . |
| 49 | ‘ She collected all the patients ' false teeth last night — and put them into the same bowl ! |
| 50 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 51 | Hold them at the same height above the ground and let go of them both at the same moment . |
| 52 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 53 | I 'll bring yours up the same time , in a few minutes . ’ |
| 54 | If I forgive you for being male and cruel and unreasonable , you must forgive me for being female and for carrying another man 's child and wanting you at the same time . |
| 55 | All the other times were just a way of reminding myself of the realities and provoking you at the same time . |
| 56 | Since then , communism has fallen , and his once-faithful compatriots will no longer welcome him with the same fervour when he arrives for his fourth visit on June 1st . |
| 57 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 58 | She projected a kind of agelessness , which had made her at the same time an object of attention from both the Young Women 's Fitness Class and the Over-50s Club . |
| 59 | His wife was again allowed to visit him about the same time on the following ( or third ) day of custody . |
| 60 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |