Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [vb pp] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 2 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 3 | There were unpaid bills , receipts and invoices , all spread around the large dog-eared ledger that Fred had used for the past-few years . |
| 4 | Meanwhile relations between Childebert and Guntram had soured over the latter 's treatment of lands once held by Sigibert . |
| 5 | The number claiming SB has risen over the same period from three million to just under five million ( figures from CPAG ) . |
| 6 | South Africa have named for the same job , not a professional journalist , but Dr. Nick Labuschagne , a man who has just been ousted as President of the Natal Rugby Union . |
| 7 | During that period the great schism within Islam between sunni and shi'ite occurred , in which Egypt became associated with the former , as it has remained ever since . |
| 8 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 9 | She tried to remember what Mrs Hollidaye had said about the many different ways of being brave . |
| 10 | ‘ We fast for them on their feast days ’ , Augustine had said of the few remaining pagans , ‘ so that they themselves might become the spectacle ’ . |
| 11 | DESPITE a disappointing tour of Pakistan , where they went down 1–4 in the one-day series , Sri Lanka have stuck by the same players for this competition . |
| 12 | ‘ And it looks as if Ivor had come to the same conclusion . |
| 13 | Graham defended the decision on the grounds that Bolger and the French Prime Minister Michel Rocard had agreed during the latter 's visit to New Zealand in April 1991 that the Rainbow Warrior affair was closed . |
| 14 | Behind the garden were several acres of rough pasture , which Mr Coleby had bought at the same time as he bought the strip of wasteland that linked the pasture to Champney Road . |
| 15 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 16 | Des Aust has lived in the same house all his life . |
| 17 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 18 | Loretta and Bridget had belonged to the same women 's group several years before , a group which Tracey had nicknamed ‘ the coven ’ . |
| 19 | He and Moran had fought in the same flying column in the war . |