Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] in common " in BNC.
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| 1 | And we 've nothing in common . ’ |
| 2 | The two cases have nothing in common . |
| 3 | In this , especially , Miller and I have nothing in common . |
| 4 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 5 | Our minds are different ; we have nothing in common . |
| 6 | Hence the two highly ‘ cultured ’ individuals who meet at a party and find they have nothing in common to talk about . |
| 7 | You and I have nothing in common . |
| 8 | ‘ I realize we have nothing in common , ’ she told him then . |
| 9 | With a wry little twist to his lips Michele observed , ‘ I 'm rather pleased that you two have nothing in common … |
| 10 | ‘ We have nothing in common , and in temperament we 're poles apart . |
| 11 | You and I have something in common you know . ’ |
| 12 | The main and most obvious response is departmentalisation — the grouping of a diverse range of functions which nevertheless have something in common into a single central government department . |
| 13 | The two bands definitely have something in common . |
| 14 | Women with babies have something in common and can strike up a conversation , and the old and the young find it easy to talk to one another when there is a baby in the picture . |
| 15 | The monotony is relieved somewhat if you have the opportunity to talk to a fellow traveller who feels the same about long train journeys , then you have something in common besides moaning about the rigours of train travel . |
| 16 | They meet , they chat , they find they have something in common which is their grief and eventually love blossoms . |
| 17 | They do not look white in virtue of having something in common ; they have something in common ( their whiteness ) in virtue of looking white . |
| 18 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 19 | Apart from the orthodox account , all the theories examined so far have something in common . |
| 20 | The word set is used to mean a collection of things , ( not only numbers ) which all have something in common . |
| 21 | Perhaps we have something in common . ’ |
| 22 | The term set is used in its generally accepted modern sense , that is a collection of items which have something in common . |
| 23 | ‘ You and I have something in common , you see . ’ |
| 24 | Slightly larger objects , however different and unrelated , should be grouped so that they have something in common like colour or national origin . |
| 25 | Is my hon. Friend aware that the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) and I have something in common ? |
| 26 | These two views of the early medieval economy are irreconcilable , but they have something in common . |
| 27 | ‘ So , at least we have something in common , ’ he countered . |
| 28 | ‘ We Christians ’ , said Tertullian , ‘ have everything in common except our wives . ’ |
| 29 | You look at these two and ask : ‘ What have they in common , apart from their jobs ? ’ |
| 30 | These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls . |