Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
| 2 | The absconding muleteer , the swindling innkeeper and the devious customs-house officer were all treated to the same display of unthwartable will . |
| 3 | ALSO we 've only lost 3 and at least one of those was ‘ unfortunate ’ AND they were all clustered in the same period . |
| 4 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
| 5 | They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water . |
| 6 | They were all playing by the same rules . |
| 7 | One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard . |
| 8 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |
| 9 | WHelan did nt look out of place , but in this match I feel that he and Deane were both looking for the same balls and not really working as a pair . |
| 10 | ‘ We only met walking round Aurae Phiala yesterday , and then found we were both staying at the same pub . |
| 11 | Was that caused by the same sort of sedimentation , the same sort of depositing of silt ? |