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 . |