Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 2 | The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before . |
| 3 | It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee . |
| 4 | As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it . |
| 5 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 6 | I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’ |
| 7 | I had heard of the many mercy missions of the ruler 's private planes . |
| 8 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 9 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 10 | Her lovely face came before his eyes and he thought how beautifully she had played on the few occasions she had come down here with him . |
| 11 | They hoped that the dynamic forces released by socialism would generate new wealth , enabling Britain to stride the world once more in a continuing and -equal partnership with the United States , rather than as the American satellite which she had become in the latter phases of the Second World War . |
| 12 | Molly spoke with quiet confidence as though she had become in the few hours since their arrival the owner of ‘ La Felicità ’ and the organizer of life in the house . |
| 13 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 14 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 15 | But the notion , once born , firmly took root , refusing to let her settle , and as she wandered aimlessly about the living-room she realised she 'd soon be in danger of going stir-crazy if she had to look at the same four walls much longer . |
| 16 | After Wordsworth 's marriage she continued to live in the same house ; in 1829 she became seriously ill , suffering from arteriosclerosis . |
| 17 | Maintaining initial capital intact would be useless if you wanted to remain in the same business . |
| 18 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 19 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 20 | Then I realized that we kept returning to the same place and stopping for a few minutes , before moving off again around a similar route . |
| 21 | It was because the parties had all analysed the nature of the problem we had to decide in the same way that it was agreed at the outset of the hearing before us that the central question we had to answer was this : in what capacity are High Court judges sitting when they sit as visitors to the Inns of Court in disciplinary cases ? |
| 22 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 23 | It is now going to be very difficult for the Lions to win this series , although they did come from the same position to win the series four years ago in Australia . |
| 24 | Diana Travers was n't a member of her birthday party but they did dine at the same restaurant , the Black Swan on the river at Cookham . |
| 25 | They had descended on the former Jesuit college from all corners of the world representing a variety of organisations from the International Labour Organisation , through the Congress of South African Trades Unions , to the Asian Center for the Progress of Peoples , the cross-border American wo-men 's organisation Mujer á Mujer , and the London Hazards Centre . |
| 26 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 27 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 28 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 29 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 30 | France and Germany established diplomatic relations with Bosnia-Hercegovina on Nov. 12-13 on the basis of the republic 's borders as they had existed within the former Yugoslavia . |