Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 4 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 5 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 6 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 7 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 8 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 9 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 10 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 11 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 12 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 15 | You 'd adopted the same philosophy of pricing that . |
| 16 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life . |
| 19 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 20 | You chose to play the same game . |
| 21 | And was there any real difference , if what you saw made the same impression somewhere on the receiving end of sight ? |
| 22 | She had asked the same thing following the last two births , Hubert 's and Robin 's . |
| 23 | For both occasions she had worn the same hat — an uncompromising chenille turban ; Helen had disposed of it a month ago with the rest of her things and , as she looked at the photographs , felt again the curious dry but slimy touch of it . |
| 24 | He looked at Nell , and saw that she had reached the same conclusion . |
| 25 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 26 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 27 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 30 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |