Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | I happened to meet a former girlfriend while out for a constitutional among these perfumed hills and blow me if ; much to her chagrin , I could n't remember ever having slid between the sheets with her . |
| 3 | It was in the summer , some six months after I had arrived in Paris , that I determined to earn a little money . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 6 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 7 | So I did , and I managed to rise a little way , but my wing hurt and the sea wind tugged at it and below me there suddenly flew some hooded crows and I was afraid and panicked , and nearly fell from the sky . |
| 8 | ‘ I managed to win a few line-out takes and the backrow picked up a bit of their possession which pleased us as a unit . |
| 9 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She had always wanted an animal of her own , and so she began to feel a little interest in Dickon . |
| 12 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 13 | You chose to play the same game . |
| 14 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 15 | And I said to our Joe we got to get a another lock for that door . |
| 16 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 17 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 18 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 19 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 20 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 21 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 22 | The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians . |
| 23 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 24 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 25 | When the Minister met the nine regional chairmen last week they regarded his statement that he sought to achieve no more funding for sport in this country — Wales received 8.5 per cent. , Scotland 15 per cent . |
| 26 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 27 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 28 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 29 | He promised to lend no more support to his half-brothers in Angoulême . |
| 30 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |