Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] the [det] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yasmin 's brother brought her to London from their home in Bradford for the day , but meeting at the tube station proved nearly impossible , as we each had only a telephone description of the other and had unfortunately arranged to meet the same Saturday as a huge poll tax march . |
| 2 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 3 | And she wants to do the same things as us . |
| 4 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 5 | The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service … |
| 6 | The herb border can be designed to follow the same principles as those used for the herbaceous or mixed border ; small plants will not thank you for planting them next to towering or buxom plants — they will be smothered in no time . |
| 7 | A cut in taxes that raised residents ' incomes by the same amount as the lump-sum grant would be expected to produce the same amount as the lump-sum grant . |
| 8 | In particular the fearful and horrifying episodes of life with their accompanying pain are played back so that time after time we are made to suffer the same agony that we felt as a child when we had the original experience . |
| 9 | They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management . |
| 10 | of the District Council which happens to meet the same day as the County Council and the Economic Development Panel so if I can get a copy fast enough I will get one over here and that same week it will be formally preserved |
| 11 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 12 | Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies . |
| 13 | If a road sweeper kills the king he ca n't expect to get the same gratuity as a general . |
| 14 | An old and enduring model of sexual difference , developed most powerfully and resiliently by Galen in the second century AD , had stressed the homologous nature of male and female reproductive organs ; women were said to have the same genitals as men , only inside rather than outside . |
| 15 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 16 | We would like to thank the many doctors and scientists in the United Kingdom and abroad who have been involved in research into nutrition and obesity . |
| 17 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 18 | Every MS-DOS computer has a clock that can be used to do the same job as a stop watch . |
| 19 | Most importantly , the people who will have to implement the community care reforms seem to share the same vision and , despite certain reservations , the same enthusiasm . |
| 20 | Are you going to get the same colour as your car then ? |
| 21 | The base acid base it 's exactly the same , there 's no difference , you 're going to get the same salt and the and the water . |
| 22 | You might like to stay the same weight but change your shape . |
| 23 | But both firms happen to have the same dividends and the same share price , so that the net and gross dividend yields are the same at 5.31 and 7.08 per cent respectively . |
| 24 | Those who most confidently claim to speak for British interests sometimes seem to have the least confidence that those interests are likely to prevail . |
| 25 | Seeing as you only like bands who seem to have the same attitudes as you , I 'm sure you will be pleased to know there is a band called Guns N' Roses who have this same attitude . |
| 26 | I was n't going to make the same mistake as my parents , forever denying themselves what they wanted now so that they could look forward to their retirement with complete peace of mind . |
| 27 | ( g ) Indemnities An indemnity clause may be used to achieve the same effect as an exclusion clause . |
| 28 | That 's why you can have two people who are going to occupy the same position and you 'll treat them quite differently , because of the different characters . |
| 29 | County councillors have agreed to make the former Stockton and Darlington Railway into a public bridleway between Haughton Road and McMullen Road , Darlington . |
| 30 | As for advising someone else who might want to do the same thing as myself , I do n't know what to say . |