Example sentences of "[to-vb] [art] [noun sg] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 When Alison had pushed him he 'd started to gather the momentum to ask the same questions that were obsessing Forester — apparently not the reaction she 'd expected , judging from the way that she seemed to have slammed the lid back on the mixture before it could boil over .
2 It was strange to see the Prince occupying the same segment of sofa where only the year before I had talked to his uncle .
3 Both are hoping to develop the reading habit , to encourage the child to explore the many pleasures of reading ( and of the growing number of items in audio-visual format ) , and to gain practice in this essential skill as well as in discrimination .
4 Tolerance means that with regular use , you need to increase the dose to achieve the same effect .
5 Zenith had seen Acme 's program in use and decided to write a program to fulfil the same purpose , that is , to monitor drug dosages .
6 We seem to exert every effort to make the least of the most .
7 To modify the standard where D is very young ( Camplin was 15 ) is understandable : it is not fair to expect a youth to show the same level of self-restraint as an adult .
8 It is not difficult to program a computer to do the same .
9 By Lesson 27 the speed had dropped to 87rpm , the speed I had to use to get the voice to sound the same as Lesson 1 .
10 But , if the material is commonplace , there would be nothing to stop an ex-employee deriving the same or similar material again as long as he did not simply copy his employer 's material .
11 Alternatively , let him fly high to act as a aerial patrol to intercept an enemy trying the same thing .
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