Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 2 | I had spent the few months before brimming over with excitement and anticipation for when my time would come to leave what had been my place of education for the previous four years . |
| 3 | She 'd waited the few moments it took for his lean , athletic figure to be swallowed up in the crowd , feasting her eyes on his receding back , fighting back the threatening tears . |
| 4 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 5 | After er , purchasing we continued to produce the same materials erm , mainly er , directed towards the saddlery trade . |
| 6 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 7 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 8 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 9 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |
| 10 | Even if he had used the same words , his non verbal communication in the two situations would have conveyed a very different attitude . |
| 11 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |