Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 2 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
| 3 | ‘ So obviously I was thinking along the same lines as him . |
| 4 | A twist to his lips , he added , ‘ I was thinking along the same lines myself when my father pre-empted me . ’ |
| 5 | Now this — Ruth Cohen and her stolen file , and I was filled with the same strange , tingling excitement . |
| 6 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
| 7 | I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent . |
| 8 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 9 | Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’ |
| 10 | You and your Spouse could be covered from as little as £7.90 per month — and you could both claim Double Benefits of £80 each if you were hospitalised at the same time because of illness — and Double again if you were hospitalised simultaneously following an accident . |
| 11 | Ah yes , I ask you about those , erm cos we did say at one time that we thought some of you were going to the half yearly Council meeting and pick them up there . |
| 12 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
| 13 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
| 14 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 15 | Oh yes , it 's in Scotland , you see , and whilst there , you see , every day er because a lady laughed at me and she said , she was staying in the same hotel and she said er I , I used to book up in advance of course but never took a chance . |
| 16 | she , she was baptised at the same time as I was , you know , er , the same day , Manchester assembly , that was nineteen seventy four seventy five no , seventy four , yeah |
| 17 | Detectives investigating the murder of Glasgow pensioner Agnes Law have revealed that she was killed for the few pounds she had in her house . |
| 18 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
| 19 | And she was subjected to the same technique Courtney used to ensnare women he assaulted after offering them drugged wine . |
| 20 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
| 21 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
| 22 | He was sure that she was animated by the same desire . |
| 23 | And now she was saying with the same delight , about someone else , ‘ Absolutely . ’ |
| 24 | We were born on the same council estate — Shiregreen , in Sheffield , both ‘ well off ’ by council house standards first with a telly and matching frocks and knickers ) . |
| 25 | We were born on the same day , in the same place . |
| 26 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 27 | Put that down and we thought right draw the circle , space it out equally , six equal angles is what we were doing at the same time as six equal arcs , all at sixty degrees , or all at one sixth of three sixty . |
| 28 | You believe we were attacked for the same reason and probably by the same person . |
| 29 | A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose . |
| 30 | Some years ago , when my husband and he discovered they were flying on the same Concorde , they exchanged autographed dinner menus . |