Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And Petrarch lived quite near here in Avignon , and I am seeing the same cypresses and oleanders …
2 Then it happens to another dancer and , as I am watching the same pattern of recovery , the man next to me throws his arms into the air , totters forward and begins to experience apparently involuntary spasms .
3 An immediate halt to the Government 's Hospital Trust , sorry I 'm reading the same thing again .
4 We 're sitting in the train , knocking back gin , and I 'm continuing the same line of thought , aloud .
5 Just just er just so I can be absolutely sure about that I think I 'm say I 'm asking the same thing that the senior inspector 's just asked .
6 But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different .
7 And I was born the same day .
8 He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig .
9 I was thinking the same thing , ’ David said calmly .
10 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
11 But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then .
12 But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more .
13 Our session started out as a posed picture for the photographer but in the end I was showing the former world champion my favourite trick shot — jumping the white over two reds into the middle pocket — and he was advising me about the exact position of the white and then how to pull off one of those complicated round-the-table shots .
14 Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else .
15 Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work .
16 I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice …
17 But someone was murdered the same day and that does matter .
18 If we are prepared to participate in a European bank for reconstruction and development to help countries in eastern Europe which are facing the same problems as Britain 's defence industry workers , could we not at least set up a defence diversification agency to help the tens of thousands of workers in the north-west and throughout the United Kingdom who will be thrown on to the scrap heap ?
19 It is estimated that about 15 per cent of the population , mostly in the rural areas , earn less than Z$100 a year , and it is this group which is facing the most difficulties in keeping their children at school .
20 We do n't know which is causing the most pain or even which event grieves us the most .
21 Mm , see this is a very difficult one to understand , it takes a lot of er working out , you see then he 's also applied , approached the city you see which is called the same thing is n't it ?
22 Radios 2 and 3 have irrevocably lost listeners now that they have been squeezed on to FM only ; so will Radio 1 , which is to meet the same fate .
23 Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] .
24 However , it was to be the Elsden 's second import which was to have the most effect on the breed .
25 Had she been asked the same question in different surroundings her amazement might have been tempered with doubt that Nahum Morey was in his right mind , but in this confined space she began to share his conviction that they had been drawn together by their various needs .
26 At each stage , half the fun comes from sharing the trials and triumphs with friends who are undergoing the same experiences .
27 And last , but not least , centres must ensure that procedures are in place to allow those staff who are teaching the same module to talk to each other so that internal standardisation — essential in a devolved system such as National Certificate — can take place .
28 In this way share prices are determined not by reference to estimations of fundamental value , but by a series of guesses about the behaviour of other market participants ; they result from ‘ [ s ] peculations on the speculations of other speculators who are doing the same thing ’ .
29 In fact , it is extremely hard to determine just exactly where you are experiencing the most hostility and hassle — at home or at work ?
30 ‘ So you , ’ he said , his mien so dangerous that Mary beside him , fearful , put a restraining hand on his arm , ‘ must be the Marquess of Blaine , seeing that you are escorting the former Miss Maybelle Foy , of Chicago .
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