Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [art] [det] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old .
2 They always bring them the same day so there 's not much point in looking anywhere else .
3 It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour .
4 This is to request that you will send me no more goods unless ordered .
5 Now that should give me the same answer as if I do ten take away five so it 's take away a plus five , Yeah ?
6 ‘ We have seen her a few times since she has become well known .
7 I had seen her a few times since and remembered her lively face , her large , intelligent eyes which were always looking here , looking there as if one moment 's rest would deny her some crumb of life .
8 You still add a mark if you put then , would you give us the same mark as before ?
9 Just give me a few minutes while I get dressed and I shall be ready to go with you .
10 I 've told him no more sex till he gets back into shape . ’
11 For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party .
12 I 'll try , but you 'll have to give me a few days before you pull her in . ’
13 With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments .
14 However he looked after his animals with great care , brushing and combing them every evening , giving them the same food as he had himself , and chopping wood to make a fire so that they should be warm at night .
15 Just wan na call them the same things as you 're used to .
16 So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle .
17 Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays .
18 She met him a few days after she started the job .
19 The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes .
20 He spoke already in terms of collaboration — ‘ I sent you a few studies because you can see from them that she helps me a great deal by posing .
21 Anyway he says he 'd pay him the same money as what he 's on there , 'cos he 'd have to really , would n't just say , say
22 O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married .
23 This birth was so quick and easy , Wilson could not think it the same process as Oreste 's .
24 Gifford Tate had painted it a few weeks before she died .
25 I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er
26 That gave me the same charge as I remembered when I was a little kid and could memorise every record I had , who the publishing company was , how long the song was and what label it was on .
27 So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ '
28 After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer .
29 Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor .
30 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
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