Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [adv] in the [det] " in BNC.

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1 He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap …
2 I hit him again in the same place , a little harder .
3 Guy was always very close to his older sister , and after his accident she treated him consistently in the same way as she had before , which helped him to regain his normal social skills very quickly .
4 On the second day after she first saw the white gleam she saw it again in the same place .
5 They were shooed away by the Sheikha , who rebuked them for being naughty and greeted me almost in the same breath .
6 Both men said it together in the same explosive voice and Maggie was n't sure which one to look at .
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