Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines . |
| 2 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 3 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 4 | Well who , who noticed that you had the least Brummie accent ? |
| 5 | Of the many books I have read , the ones whose authors showed that they possessed the most joy and happiness were Epictetus , Seneca , Tagore , Thoreau , Kabir , Raidas , Ramakrishna , Rumi , W.H. Davies , Vinoba Bhave . |
| 6 | Dexter guessed that she thought the same as him but was keen to learn as much as she could from Blufton about Nicola and her motives for giving these ‘ facts ’ to the chairman of TVL . |
| 7 | ‘ Quite simple really , ’ Daphne replied when I put the same question to her that evening . |
| 8 | Nails , now a connoisseur of horses , looked critically at Midnight and saw that he possessed the same nervous temperament as Lucky Lady Firelight , and was pleased . |
| 9 | I understood because I felt the same fear as they did . |
| 10 | She knew because she felt the same herself , the whole damn lot of it , down to the last small detail . |
| 11 | I thought because everybody had the same experience . |
| 12 | He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins . |
| 13 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 14 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 15 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 16 | Jessica and I met when we joined the same company within a day of each other — both straight from school . |
| 17 | Newman wondered whether he employed the same method in other parts of the world . |