Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just want to go with the least amount of gear I can get away with , be able to troubleshoot it myself and keep it simple . |
| 2 | But it is far from certain that all the fish in every corporate shoal want to swim in the same direction . |
| 3 | As the genes in question appear to work in the same way in mice and people it should be possible to develop ways of detecting the genes in people at risk and discovering methods of implanting cells with the normal genes or blocking the action of the defective genes . |
| 4 | How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera . |
| 5 | The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets . |
| 6 | Three- and four-year-olds appear to act on the same assumption . |
| 7 | Perhaps because horses are relatively large , and therefore hard to ignore , people tend to behave in the same way in the presence of a horse . |
| 8 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 9 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 10 | Similarly , it is often the case that senior officials within the civil service all seem to come from the same sort of background . |
| 11 | Then an appendix , a disc list , gives every known issue and reissue according to the same numbering , a sensible practice . |
| 12 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 13 | In this way , all her eggs begin developing at the same time . |
| 14 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 15 | It 's also very rare that you finish standing on the same position from which you made the cast . |
| 16 | Being situated in Farmoor the village is very sought after and residents seem to move within the same village as it is so popular . |
| 17 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 18 | Other diarrhoea-causing bacteria seem to operate on the same principle as cholera enterotoxin ie. by blocking sodium and chloride ion reabsorption and causing chloride ion secretion into the gut lumen . |
| 19 | They cooperate because they all stand to gain from the same outcome — the survival and reproduction of the communal body — and because they constitute an important part of the environment in which natural selection works on each other . |
| 20 | And if if a certain family gets stuck in with another family and they 're both trouble causers and they both get moved to the same area it 's gon na cause trouble in that area so they ought to say , Right fifty there , fifty there , |
| 21 | Now it 's got the three and we 're batting for each other , you know playing on the same side . |
| 22 | But we all get changed in the same room when we 're at concerts . |
| 23 | Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed . |
| 24 | If there is just one curve at the top of the incline and the leading and trailing wheels thus continue travelling on the same rail tracks , as the tank comes up over the curve it will tilt forward . |
| 25 | If it is assumed that the age structure of the inward flow and the outward flow is similar and that those who leave continue to reproduce at the same rate as those of a similar age who stay then an estimate of the number of births to women who leave can be made ( table ) . |
| 26 | Many insects respond to sound in the same way . |
| 27 | When two bodies attempt to exist within the same sub-space their functional association needs to be checked . |
| 28 | In this deformation all quantities dX become increased by the same factor — -1 ) . |
| 29 | Should two adjacent needles try to tuck at the same time , there is nothing between these two needles to actually hold the loops on to the individual needles , so the loops become just one loop , which often falls off both needles . |
| 30 | Said Mr Robinson : ‘ Several views were aired and it is now important that we all try to push in the same direction to the benefit of the club . ’ |