Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pers pn] in the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The carer then holds him in the same way as if he was sitting on the side of the bed , with his head resting on her shoulder , and lifts him up and round onto the second chair . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , that 's the Eiffel Tower , ’ and he says it in the same tone of voice as if you had shown him a portrait of Grandpa , and he had said : ‘ So that 's your grandfather I 've heard so much about . |
| 3 | A statement that something does not happen both creates an event and abolishes it in the same act ( 1976k:21–2 ) . |
| 4 | The operation of the wheel is unusual , being a variation on the overshot type in which water falls on to the top of the wheel and turns it in the same direction as the water 's flow . |
| 5 | Shedding their skin puts them in the same position as Jane Austen 's heroes , prematurely aged by the treacherous sun of the West Indies . ’ |
| 6 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 7 | MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability . |
| 8 | Of course , the fact that you have written a computer program that will do what an animal does is no proof that the animal does it in the same way . |
| 9 | Until recently , such wavelengths have been ignored because neutral hydrogen absorbs it in the same way fog absorbs visible light . |