Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] to [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle for any word bearing an inflectional affix , it is possible to find contexts where all possible substitutes must contain either the same affix , or one belonging to the same closed set : consider the possible substitutes for walked in Cedric walked home , longer in Mine is longer than yours or books in those books . |
| 2 | It starts by proclaiming that God is dead or what comes to the same thing , that if he exists he is irrelevant . |
| 3 | Or what comes to the same thing judges changed their minds about what aspects or features of past decisions they were required to follow . |
| 4 | Er this is just one that I wanted some stuff and I said to a few people |
| 5 | Now we can begin to see the outlines of a theory of human personality and cultural development which is elegant indeed and which reduces to a few general principles many of the random and apparently unsystematic motions of human history and culture . |
| 6 | He said , and it 's really good , he said , cos I 'm , I 'm celebrating my fortieth birthday , he said , and I ring my boys , he said , and they listen to the same sort of music I do . |
| 7 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 8 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 9 | On the other side sceptics point out that the Conservative share of the vote in the 1983 and 1987 elections is below that in the 1960s and they point to the several opinion surveys which show that popular support for collective values remains high . |
| 10 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 11 | ‘ Her sisters and mine went to the same school . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 13 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 14 | ‘ No , I 'm a scientist , but it amounts to the same thing . ’ |