Example sentences of "[vb past] [det] [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other bad news is that not only did John Fullard get a letter for the wrong house in The Grove , he also got another on the same day intended for 27 The Oval . |
| 2 | And we shared some of the same problems , sewage s leaking into the offices and asbestos lagging round the piping . |
| 3 | In the mid-1970s Britain faced a more severe crisis , in which very high inflation , a balance of payments problem and continuing high unemployment occurred all at the same time . |
| 4 | I once watched a television documentary about St Kilda , during which they interviewed some of the few people living who had been born and had spent their youth on the island . |
| 5 | The division of Glamorgan allowed each of the former county boroughs to be placed in a separate county though in terms of total area or population a unified Glamorgan would not be unusual in an English context . |
| 6 | Those industrial societies which were ( and in a few cases still are ) collectivist and centrally planned , have had to cope with different problems , although they too were affected by economic recession , and faced some of the same difficulties in maintaining economic growth . |
| 7 | Nursing staff from the in-patient unit experienced many of the same problems towards the out-patient teams as residential workers had in relation to fieldworkers . |
| 8 | This led , through X The Unknown ( 1957 ) , which parodies the complacency of the authorities towards the radiation threat and Quatermass 2 ( 1957 ) , in which the visiting monsters come much closer to taking over the world , to the cycle of horror films that started with The Curse of Frankenstein ( 1956 ) , moving away from immediate contemporary concerns towards mythological narratives that touched some of the same fears and terrors . |
| 9 | She was taking off her hat and coat as she spoke ; then going over to her aunt , she bent down and kissed her on the cheek , and followed this with the same salutation for her uncle ; and in response he patted her on the shoulder . |
| 10 | Gould 's accounts imply that he spent much of the latter part of his expedition , because of a shortage of water , doubling backwards and forwards from the Mount Lofty range to the Murray Scrubs ( later known as the Mallee ) , where most of the interesting birds were to be found : |
| 11 | The debate over how to explain this industrial decline of cities raised many of the same questions about the nature of explanation as have just been discussed . |
| 12 | This took the place of a pre-release course ( which would be impossible to plan in an institution where some men were so far away from release and others might be released on parole licence at very short notice ) but it covered many of the same topics . |
| 13 | Which brings me to consider the likeness — and differences — between these two sopranos who often sang much of the same repertoire . |
| 14 | Collections do n't have to be expensive , or acquired all at the same time . |
| 15 | The three generations before the revolution of 1789 saw more of the same process of slow institutional adaptation . |
| 16 | He did this on the same day , with the result that the situation became much calmer and negotiations opened for a new Executive Council which would include General Aung San as its leader . |
| 17 | In fact I did these in the same way as the neckband , doing the button band first ; after that it is to mark where the buttonholes are to go , it 's just a matter of arithmetic since the needles are numbered already . |
| 18 | A collection of nondescript prints , for example , can be given a sense of unity if each is mounted with the same distinctive colour : camel or chrome yellow or red , whichever fits in best with the room , and then edged all in the same way with a thin strip of wood or chrome or brass . |
| 19 | It improved when I made this close friend , who had some of the same ideas as me on things like sex , drugs , politics , music . |
| 20 | While Greenpeace tried to save the whales , Timberlake would have raised a ‘ Save the Whalers ’ banner — and then made most of the same points about protecting whale stocks and keeping the oceans clean . |
| 21 | Nigel considered this for a few moments and then he said , ‘ Tell you what . |