Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] on the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just over five and a half years later , I stood on the same spot and watched the Israelis drive down the same road to be greeted in precisely the same way by the same Christians on the same balconies . |
| 2 | The distance you want is the perpendicular distance to the line , not the distance you would travel to the line if you stayed on the same heading . |
| 3 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 4 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 5 | He had qualified at university in geology and geography , had tried teaching in Hull but found it too confining and when one of the old guard told him he should be spending more time with children who had some potential rather than those to whom he felt committed , he resigned on the same day . |
| 6 | ‘ Their views should be given weight only when they are clearly representative of opinion in the Parliamentary party or the Conservative Party as a whole , ’ he said on the same programme . |
| 7 | Will the right hon. Gentleman reconsider the generosity he bestowed on the former Leader of the House , the right hon. Member for Shropshire , North ( Mr. Biffen ) , who moved the guillotine motion on the original poll tax measure applying to Scotland ? |