Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [det] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Cricket must now be the only sport in which you can be punished for the same offence twice and , who knows , maybe three times if he appeals ! |
| 2 | However , we shall be satisfied only when no more such arrests are made , so that we do not have to go through the same business all over again . |
| 3 | THE Danes voted for the same treaty yesterday that they rejected last June because they were misled by the media and politicians , claimed an East Anglian Tory Euro-rebel . |
| 4 | Each group of headlines , furthermore , ‘ consists of two sets , one for the outer forme [ the forme containing the two pages which would end up outermost when the sheet was folded — ppa/8 , 9/16 and so on ] and another for the inner , and the various headlines in each set appear in the same sequence whenever used ’ ( p.300 ) . |
| 5 | They appear in the most numbers where the marshes meet the wolds and where the stream that feed them from this higher region are , in consequence , faster flowing . |
| 6 | But he and Eleanor moved in the same set socially . |
| 7 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |
| 8 | If a Muslim , she usually marries a cousin who lives in the same village so at least the surroundings are familiar to her ; but among Hindus and Sikhs the husband 's family nearly always live in a different village ( because a woman must marry outside her kin ) . |
| 9 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 10 | The assistants were asked what help and training they needed in order to carry out their duties more effectively , and both head and class teacher were asked to comment on the same issues independently . |
| 11 | this explains why Golding 's choice of ending , rescue , is not anti-climatic as the choristers and schoolboys are returning to the same situation back in the outside world . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've come across the same thing all over Europe . |
| 13 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 14 | ‘ Well , it wo n't matter for the few yards back to the cottage … ’ |
| 15 | There is little to be seen of the former docks now , only depressions marked with stakes identifying the site , but the village remains , where some of the master shipwrights lived who built Nelson 's favourite ship , HMS Agamemnon , as well as many other men o' war for the British fleet . |
| 16 | They will not be led by preachers at their church to face up to the fact that there are four Gospels , that John is significantly different from the Synoptics , that the New Testament writers do not always speak with the same voice even on essential matters of faith . |
| 17 | We cut into the same ventricle twice , believing we 'd found the other one . |
| 18 | Living under the same roof permanently will need working at , and sacrifices will have to be made on both sides if it is to succeed . |
| 19 | And why has n't Jack Rowell , the Bath coach , been pushed with the same vigour that Best appears to have been ? |
| 20 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 21 | In Pakistan , it is common to find three generations of a family living in the same house perhaps together with aunts , uncles and cousins . |
| 22 | Now they may have fifteen thousand patients , well a lot of those are going to be living in the same house so we |
| 23 | During this process gods worshipped in the same animal eventually fused together , while other retained a separate identity . |
| 24 | It attracted people of similar views and backgrounds and it 's no surprise — or should n't be — that such people still mix in the same circles now . |
| 25 | Saint-Exupéry said that ‘ loving someone does not mean looking into each other 's eyes , but looking in the same direction together . ’ |
| 26 | He never played in the same pub twice in the same month ; even so , word got around among the regulars . |
| 27 | Glass paperweights are still made in the same style today . |
| 28 | The first reason why the market could no longer be perceived as limiting economic power was that the structure of the market ceased to correspond even loosely with the model of perfect competition which required numerous firms operating in the same industry so that no firm was capable of affecting the price of its product by varying the level of the output of that product . |
| 29 | There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge . |
| 30 | But the Colonel and John-William were both Justices of the Peace , often serving on the same Bench together , and although she had so far shirked inviting them to dine — the prospect of being alone with the Colonel 's lady frankly terrifying her — she was delighted to see them here today , feeling that their presence lent great distinction . |