Example sentences of "both [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both made the most of their chance . |
| 2 | Both provided the same amount of calories . |
| 3 | And Steffi Graf earned £130,000 MORE than fellow countryman Boris Becker , although they both played the same number of official tournaments — 15 . |
| 4 | IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum . |
| 5 | AS , in thee matches , they both faced the same bowlers on the same pitches , it may be deduced that , as batsmen , they are of roughly equal merit . |
| 6 | During those years , both faced the same general economic and social changes — fluctuations of world trade , changing technology , changes in the nature of work , a demographic transition , the growth of nationalism in Europe and the growth of working class political consciousness and organization — but the outcome on the two societies was very different . |
| 7 | Keats when he wrote that poem and was lost in his immaterial dream breathed the same intoxicating air as Einstein did , and both knew the same profound excitement and sublime delight . |
| 8 | But I never dared to think we should discover that we both felt the same way . |
| 9 | ‘ We both had the same instinct . |
| 10 | And then by one of those quirky coincidences that make life interesting both women spoke at once , and both said the same thing . |
| 11 | Characterization of these cDNAs demonstrated that both encoded the same protein sequence but the shorter RACE product was the result of oligo-dT primer annealing to a short A rich sequence within the 3' untranslated region that does not have an identifiable polyadenylation signal associated with it ( data not shown ) . |