Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] the [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This does not mean that we all display the same feelings about God or become the same temperamental type . |
| 2 | Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits , or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end , or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house , or bothered young women on the subway . |
| 3 | Many of the factors ( social or otherwise ) which may affect either the need for or the cost of delivering health care are unevenly distributed , often in small pockets , and do not present in the same way — or have the same social meaning — in different parts of Britain . |
| 4 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 5 | Running around in circles and seeing the same old thing defeats half the purpose . |
| 6 | Scientists believe human laughter has an evolutionary origin and is linked with monkeys who grin and display the same shoulder-shaking signs . |
| 7 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |
| 8 | The Pump Wagon is heavily constructed and has the same basic profile as a chariot . |
| 9 | We swallowed hard , stiffened our upper lip , and decided to ‘ see it through ’ by shutting our eyes and applying the same old formula regardless — a constitution , a mace , a copy of Erskine May , a Speaker 's chair and national independence . |
| 10 | As members of one of the world 's elite fighting forces , they have to gain the coveted green beret and undergo the same rigorous selection and training exercises as all other Royal Marines . |
| 11 | On a more cultural note , the Chinese and Asian fashion shows and song and dance were enjoyed by all and complemented the many important issues such as safety , women 's health and violence against women which were addressed during the weekend . |
| 12 | NT supports symmetric multi-processing , and uses the same parallel streams communication architecture model as Sequent . |
| 13 | His paw landed in the ashtray , knocking it out of my hand and spilling the few precious drops I had caught . |
| 14 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 15 | It is built of the same materials and shows the same Moorish features of decoration and construction ( 415 ) . |
| 16 | They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans . |
| 17 | But he never wanted to do anything but sit in his study , go to the university and give the same old lectures , year after year . |
| 18 | One can get some idea about what it means to try to maintain safety by blindfolding even one eye and noting the several changed perspectives . |
| 19 | Social works are similarly influenced and exhibit the same pessimistic assumptions about the abilities of older people . |
| 20 | But it is right to notice and celebrate the many positive experiences we already have of the activity of women in the church . |
| 21 | In contrast , Piaroa minimize gender differences and maintain the same normative code of non-violent behaviour for both males and females . |
| 22 | Despite the tensions of the human rights office , she was always remarkably good-humoured and adored the few social moments she allowed herself . |
| 23 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 24 | Only one was emphatic that he did not wish his son to take over and have the same hard life as himself . |
| 25 | That year he came to Europe as the roving correspondent and covered the several large conferences . |
| 26 | They had had four years ' grind up and down the country with uncomfortable lodgings , often very bad theatres and performing the same limited repertoire week after week , month after month . |
| 27 | They sounded the same and wore the same white overalls , but Mr Smith had cloven hands — like a hoof with wiry brown hair — sticking from the starched overall sleeves . |
| 28 | Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . |
| 29 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 30 | The paper went on to consider the question of ‘ The Grading of Murders ’ , traversing the same ground as a Royal Commission would do six years later , and reaching the same negative conclusions , except that Ede rejected the idea of giving the jury any discretion : |