Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 2 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 3 | ‘ So obviously I was thinking along the same lines as him . |
| 4 | A twist to his lips , he added , ‘ I was thinking along the same lines myself when my father pre-empted me . ’ |
| 5 | Now this — Ruth Cohen and her stolen file , and I was filled with the same strange , tingling excitement . |
| 6 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 7 | I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent . |
| 8 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 9 | His love of Britain and wholehearted support for the fight against Fascism gave his films an urgency and richness which were lacking in the few he made after the war . |
| 10 | The new President delivered his inaugural address in Creole , punctuated with sections in French , English , Spanish , German , Italian , Hebrew and Arabic which were directed towards the many foreign dignitaries who attended the ceremony . |
| 11 | Soviet writers raised the idea that the guarantor countries , which should include the USSR , the United States , and other states acceptable to both Afghanistan and its neighbours which were negotiating with the former , could adopt an obligation to observe the sovereignty , independence , territorial integrity and non-aligned status of Afghanistan . |
| 12 | His hands , which were apprenticed to the same mystery , arched and spread their fingers before him in air , involuntarily reproducing the tension and precision of the vaulting . |
| 13 | In this study , this was achieved by examining the estimated kilometre square populations together with those which were reported for the same areal units in the 1971 Census of Population . |
| 14 | In the first process coal and iron ore , which were mined from the same rocks , were fed into small blast-furnaces to produce bars of pig iron . |
| 15 | The Wimbledon defender will also request a cut in a six-month playing ban , suspended for three years , which was imposed at the same time . |
| 16 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 17 | to which I referred was an overestimate compared to the figure that I suggested , which was based on the same information . |
| 18 | The situations envisaged by that subsection seem to me well illustrated by Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 , which was dealing with the same words in another section of the same Act . |
| 19 | One patient also had a distal gastric cancer which was resected at the same time as the colonic primary . |
| 20 | He had begun in 1833 to work also on 10 plates for Gould 's Monograph of Toucans , a single volume of 34 plates on a single species similar to Lear 's own original Parrot publication , and which was to finish in the same year , 1835 , as the Birds of Europe . |
| 21 | Clarke contributed to the line-out effort , which was shaded by the All Blacks 21–17 . |
| 22 | Within this poem he clearly attempts to square on the one hand the darker representations of his sleep with his pansocratic visions , on the other hand , Pains of Sleep which was published at the same time as Kubla Khan illuminates the ancestral voices prophesying war . |
| 23 | The top priorities of his programme , which was endorsed on the same day , were stabilization of the domestic market , cuts in exports to COMECON ( Council of Mutual Economic Assistance , or CMEA ) partners , curbing the increase in hard-currency foreign debt , an active social policy , and measures to solve the worst environmental problems . |
| 24 | Clearly , a sum paid to the settlor to discharge a liability of his to the bank would come within this section ( see IRC v Bates ( 1966 ) 44 TC 225 : the case of Potts ' Executors v IRC [ 1951 ] AC 43 held that a payment to a third party was not a sum paid to the settlor but that case is no longer good law in view of TA 1988 , s677(10) which was inserted into the former TA 1970 , s451 ( now TA 1988 , s677 ) by s42(7) of FA 1981 ) . |
| 25 | They have had to develop more detailed service costings than required by their main customers , the district health authorities , who were limited to the less information costly block contracts during the first year of the internal market . |
| 26 | But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have . |
| 27 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 28 | Of the carers in the 1985 GHS who were living in the same household as the person receiving care , 51 per cent of women reported spending at least fifty hours a week giving help compared with only 39 per cent of men . |
| 29 | This sort of pressure , combined with fear of the Spaniards , made it easier for the English to work with the French who were settling in the same region of islands than earlier or later generations would have thought possible . |
| 30 | In Cornwall in 1796 , 1801 and 1812 a noose and contract was taken around to farmers , who were threatened with the former if they did not agree to sign the latter . |