Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 2 | As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks . |
| 3 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 4 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 5 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 6 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 7 | ‘ He and I grew up in the same town . |
| 8 | ‘ I grew up in the same street as Alex Maskey , ’ said Mr Blair who also knew SF 's Paddy McManus many years ago . |
| 9 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 10 | ‘ I ended up with the same look as with the hot-air brushes , but it can only be used on dry hair . |
| 11 | As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’ |
| 12 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 13 | It hits his head and you do n't hear the noise it makes because you cry out at the same time , as though it 's you in the bed , you being attacked , you being killed . |
| 14 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 15 | Tack into a gap once you have expended about half the time to the start from the buoy , then even if you sail back at the same speed , you can not be early . |
| 16 | If you go twice as fast as something else , and you started out at the same instant from the same spot , you 'd go twice as far — which is what you found . |
| 17 | She looked back through the many pages she had written , and saw the great names glitter there — Proclus , Plotinus , Iamblichus , Ficino , Pico , Agrippa . |
| 18 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 19 | The next time you step out in the same bout , a half-point penalty is incurred . |
| 20 | I heard you wake up from the same bad dream |
| 21 | you just like the idea of bacon cooking you picked up on the same idea . |
| 22 | We grew up in the same turnin' , yer see . |
| 23 | We rolled up at the same time , I on my bike , the Parsons in their BMW . |
| 24 | Now if we go back to the same example , the cost per every ten thousand for fifteen years is one pound fifty seven . |
| 25 | We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office . |
| 26 | This way of thinking is not reasonable , yet we carry on in the same way , generation after generation , never learning by our past mistakes . |
| 27 | We start off with the same two words every time . |
| 28 | When we finished the tour , we ended up in the same place and he comes back to me with the most beautiful guitar I 've ever seen — handcrafted in under a month ! |
| 29 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 30 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |