Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 2 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 3 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 4 | Well they 'd sell you the most expensive because they 'd got the most commission |
| 5 | They 've done the same thing . |
| 6 | I mean they 've got the least amount of people that are there are so we 'll either that or the end of the day see if it does n't get banned , right ? |
| 7 | They 've got the same squad of fifteen who did so well last week . |
| 8 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 9 | And yet they 've got the same amount of time |
| 10 | Erm we do n't see a great deal of difference that they 've had the same problem as we 've had , in that we ran out of time before we could put the er finished act together properly . |
| 11 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 12 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 13 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 15 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 16 | They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world . |
| 17 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 18 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 19 | They have done the same thing to us as Ward did — they suspended us . |
| 20 | Having publicly committed themselves to extending legislation to protect residents in small private residential care homes , the Government left it to a Back-Bench Member to bring in a Bill , and they have done the same thing again . |
| 21 | They will need to check whether they have made the same amount of each and if they are not able to count , then they can correspond one-to-one ‘ tops ’ with ‘ bottoms ’ . |
| 22 | They include , to give just a few examples , realizing that they have re-read the same page of a book three times without taking any of it in ; nearly getting knocked over crossing the road ; yelling ‘ Tie ! ’ at a pupil they do n't know ; noticing that they are both reading a magazine and watching the television while having their evening meal ; spotting the line of empty wine bottles that has accrued since the weekend . |
| 23 | Not many industrial sites can say that they have serviced the same industry for over 100 years . |
| 24 | ‘ Some of them have had the same experience , and here she 's in a familiar place doing familiar work and I think feeling closer to Whitey . ’ |