Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widow Mary Todd , 64 , met Bill Raisbeck six months ago when she moved into the same sheltered housing scheme at Thornaby , Cleveland . |
| 2 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
| 3 | James Anderson , of Jarrow , asks how we managed to miss the series of disasters at nuclear power stations that occurred in the former Soviet Union during the mid-1990s , causing the flight of tens of millions of people towards western Europe and triggering the ‘ Refugee Wars ’ of 1995–96 . |
| 4 | With the establishment of the communist People 's Republic in 1949 remaining Nationalists under Chiang Kai-shek fled to the former Japanese colony of Taiwan . |
| 5 | The trade unions were insisting that Britain abided by the same social protection rules as other EC countries . |
| 6 | The bed was low but wide , and made of the same pale wood . |
| 7 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 8 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 9 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 10 | In the course of the 1970s various ‘ summary ’ analyses of large numbers of ‘ effectiveness ’ studies — Lipton , Martinson and Wilks ( 1975 ) and Brody ( 1976 ) being perhaps the best known — came to the same negative conclusion . |
| 11 | Was n't she motivated by the same inner compulsion , the urge to forge ahead ? |
| 12 | Over and over again , the hands danced through the same short sequence of signs . |
| 13 | The chart-room section held nothing that a chart-room should not have had , including a locked cupboard which Talbot opened in the same cavalier fashion he had used on the bridge : it held only pilot books and sailing directions . |
| 14 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 15 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 16 | ‘ Wrote to each other for a while , ’ he echoed with the same derisive twist to his mouth . |
| 17 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 18 | The raising of a ‘ grain curtain ’ is threatening the economic stability of those countries which have lost the protection they enjoyed from the former Soviet empire . |
| 19 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 20 | The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits . |
| 21 | The hyena remains that William Buckland took as evidence of the deluge belonged to the same recent period , as did the giant deer sometimes called the ‘ Irish elk ’ . |
| 22 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 23 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |
| 24 | My poor old mother , and me sister finished at the same big house , servant there for them . |
| 25 | The new draft law both adds teeth and liberalises , Customs officers will have the right to check all luggage including diplomatic bags , the latter in accordance with the Vienna Diplomatic Convention of 1961 signed by the former Soviet Union and recognised by Russia . |
| 26 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 27 | Buchanan asked in the same mild tone . |
| 28 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |
| 29 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 30 | Director for the past five years of the National Campaign for the Arts , he previously worked for the former Labour minister , Mr Albert Booth , and the Low Pay Unit . |