Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latter 's leader , Goukouni Guët was a former close supporter of Hissène Habré , but an MDD spokesman in Paris denied that the rebels wanted to reinstate the former President , who was ousted in December 1990 [ see p. 37907 ] . |
| 2 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 3 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 4 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 5 | Children learned to make the same response ( X ) to the visual stimuli A and B , and a different response ( Y ) to stimulus C. ( for some subjects X and Y were different verbal labels , for others they were different hand movements . ) |
| 6 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 7 | At the root of the problem , according to one European civil servant , was the fact that : " The poor countries wanted a lot of money with no strings attached , while the rich ones wanted to give a little money with lots of strings . " |
| 8 | Edinburgh employers tended to express the latter view , trade unionists the former . |