Example sentences of "[verb] [noun prp] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed . |
| 2 | ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment . |
| 3 | At that meeting he said he hoped that if Germany occupied Czechoslovakia the move would paralyse Poland at the same time . |
| 4 | At that time hardly anyone but Winters would have named Williams in the same breath as Eliot , and it is characteristic of Winters 's perversity ( or his independence ) that thirty years later , when it had become usual to set Williams up against Eliot , Winters 's opinion of Williams had long been much less favourable . |
| 5 | I said would it , in order now just to deal with the amendment on my own sir or support Mr at the same time ? |
| 6 | No Talmudic saying was nearer to him than that at the end of the Kiddushin : ‘ When a man faces his Maker , he will have to account for those ( God-given ) pleasures of life which he failed to enjoy , ’ and the Mezeritzer Rabbi commented , albeit a little more warily , ‘ You may reach a compromise between evil and good by enjoying legitimate bodily pleasure and serving God at the same time . ’ |
| 7 | Many would claim that the teaching of Jesus is still relevant and that it is virtually impossible to be totally committed to amassing wealth and to serve God at the same time . |
| 8 | Evidence of my identity — why I , presumably an Englishman , since my relative is , should independently choose to visit Vienna at the same time — a time , incidentally , when most people with any sense are travelling in precisely the opposite direction … |
| 9 | She affected Luke in the same way as he did her . |
| 10 | Could I have Mr Chairman cos it 's a , is it an order of government to support Mr at the same time or should I do . |
| 11 | The journalist with whom I 'd joined TWW on the same week from sister papers in Cardiff had wickedly gone into another room to make the mischievous call . |
| 12 | The detail , then , is in this sense gratuitous , but it has its effect : Wilekin buys Margery with the same money that Dame Sirith can use to buy animals ; the bargains , and the items bought , are reduced to the same level . |
| 13 | He hated seeing wartime documentaries ; they did n't seem to affect Anna in the same way — she seemed to thrill with excitement as the guns flashed and the tanks churned through ruined streets . |
| 14 | The doubts of these two people were entirely different , but they were both doubting God for the same reason : they did not know God as he really is . |
| 15 | It was n't easy , having David under the same roof . |
| 16 | Pay SMP in the same way that you would normally pay your employee 's wages . |
| 17 | Tom Jones and Duff argued for resignation , and Lady Astor helped to sway Dawson to the same line , which was duly reflected in The Times leader of Monday morning . |
| 18 | One of the main problems , particularly at the Everest base camp , is this business of allowing eight expeditions to climb Everest at the same time . |
| 19 | Pickering said : ‘ Dave Mackay did a great job for Derby in his mid-thirties and we saw Robson as the same type of leader . ’ |
| 20 | It is the Holy Spirit at work in our souls , a gift of the divine Love of the Trinity , which enables us to love God with the same love whereby he loves himself . |
| 21 | Damian Flint , the man she admired so much , thought she was some cheap little floozy he could get into bed while taking Swift at the same time . |
| 22 | I sent Poole to the same chemist to fetch some more chemicals . |
| 23 | This is particularly ironic given that at least three people were hospitalised after taking Ketamine at the same venue . |
| 24 | Daniel became free of the Haberdashers ' Company in 1632 , and apprenticed Samuel to the same trade in 1634 . |
| 25 | ‘ On one occasion he was playing Byron at the same time as Richard III , ’ says Miss McCulloch . |
| 26 | Pelagius thought Jerome 's bitter hostility to marriage akin to Manichaean dualism , and his disciple Julian of Eclanum — with less justice — accused Augustine of the same betrayal . |
| 27 | Joyfully , the Marchants elected Kitty to the same category of quaint but endearing knick-knack which they had devised for her son . |
| 28 | She and Allan has , so far as the plot goes , the look of an afterthought , with a patchwork plot full of echoes of Quatermain 's other adventures and placing Ayesha in the same kind of danger from rebellion and rivalry which made up the story lines of She and Ayesha . |
| 29 | If Polybius had treated Rome in the same way as according to a fragment of Book 34 he seems to have treated Alexandria , we would have gained in understanding . |
| 30 | The seven-strong French diplomatic contingent left Kuwait at the same time , thus reducing the Western diplomatic corps there to two British and 10 US staff . |