Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 2 | Still the stitch continued to drop in the same area . |
| 3 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 4 | Nolan J said that the committee had to consist of the same people throughout . |
| 5 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 6 | It seemed louder , more raucous than usual , and she sighed at the prospect of another evening spent listening to the same arguments and bitter reproaches . |
| 7 | However , if all members of a group went swimming at the same time and left valuables unattended , that would be an unnecessary risk where no real precautions had been taken and would be a breach of the duty of care . |
| 8 | Familiarity bred business so it seemed , as established dealers with a limited clientele continued to deal with the same few people day after day , generating sometimes fantastic commissions for themselves , as well as token fines for the overtrading habits that ironically were tacitly encouraged . |
| 9 | The organisation as a whole became sensitised to the many debates which faced women artists who were physically challenged . |
| 10 | The walls of the craft began to buckle under the same kind of sideways force that was pressing in on her body . |
| 11 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 12 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |
| 13 | A similar incident had occurred at the same spot ten days earlier , though nobody was hurt then . |
| 14 | ( A similar attack had occurred on the same sub-prefecture in May 1985 — see p. 34927 . ) |
| 15 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 16 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 17 | Her world had shrunk to the few things which still had interest for her . |
| 18 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 19 | It seems that Kerr J at first instance had come to the same conclusion as Lord Denning via a public policy route . |
| 20 | Jekyll 's servant had received by the same post a letter similar to mine , and he was waiting for me with the locksmith . |
| 21 | A day that had begun with the parade affirmation had to terminate in the same style . |
| 22 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |