Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [prep] both " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither was given custody so I moved between both of them and lived with whomever I chose . |
| 2 | The contempt is his in the ridiculous sentence for the loss of two young lives by someone intoxicated by both drink and drugs . |
| 3 | I smiled at both of them and told his friend my clothes suited him . |
| 4 | This period also saw expansion of motor-car ownership which led to both the provision of more and better roads and other traffic-related expenditure . |
| 5 | Courses would have elements which applied to both professional and to amateur musicians . |
| 6 | An attempt to reconcile the cases was made in Taylor Woodrow Property Co Ltd v Lonrho Textiles Ltd ( 1985 ) 275 EG 632 , where it was held that a " two-way " deeming provision ( ie which applied to both landlord and tenant ) made time of the essence , but a " one-way " deeming provision ( ie which applied to the tenant alone ) did not . |
| 7 | The NoS pro-Manchester lobby had a strong moral argument which appealed to both Horsley and the Founders . |
| 8 | It had one small room which acted as both day-room and bed-room . |
| 9 | The Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment ( COMARE ) , which looked at both the Sellafield and Dounreay findings on behalf of the government , concluded that they supported the hypothesis that ‘ some feature of the nuclear plants … leads to an increased risk of leukaemia in young people living in the vicinity ’ . |
| 10 | The first occurred on 12 November following the return to service of an essential supplies motor generating set , which resulted in both 3A and 3B units tripping with consequential loss of essential supplies . |
| 11 | I remember visiting a hospice for the terminally ill and being struck by the peace , joy and laughter which abounded among both patients and carers . |
| 12 | Quite unexpectedly , we found that there was another type of ganglion cell which we called the on-type directionally selective because , when plotting their receptive fields with a stationary spot , they only responded at onset , unlike the other type I have just illustrated which responded at both onset and offset ; we still do not understand the reason for this , but it led us to discover other differences . |
| 13 | Well first let me say erm in answer to a question you put some time ago , what is it what is in this budget for the people of Oxfordshire , and all you got from both Councillor Waldon and Councillor Barnes was a list of the cuts . |
| 14 | In the decade 1420–30 , a sizeable proportion of Charles VII 's army was composed of Scots who fought at both Cravant and Verneuil , a strong contingent of Genoese also taking part in this second battle against the English . |
| 15 | As the music sobbed and sighed to a conclusion , she breathed upon both the bottle-neck and the opening of the net , gradually releasing the tension on the cords as she did so . |
| 16 | He was so angry that she feared for both Dana and Garry . |
| 17 | This ascetic direction of Christianity exalted the celibate , both male and female , who abstained from both sex and reproduction and devoted themselves entirely to the coming new age that will transcend the corruptible world of birth and death . |
| 18 | So Plato , who wrote about both the Athenian family of Pisistratus and the tyranny in fourth-century Sicily , spoke ( Rep . |
| 19 | We also had a polyester business where we had to both change the technology and the products if we were to win . |
| 20 | They behaved with both unimaginable courage and contemptible cowardice . |
| 21 | They looked at both the Redcliffe-Maud and Wheatley approaches and concluded that the principles of the latter ‘ were more appropriate to the circumstances of Northern Ireland ’ ( Macrory 1970:24 ) . |
| 22 | James Naughtie 's North British voice , heavy with East of Scotland rectitude — a characteristic he shared with both John Smith and Gordon Brown — warned his listeners that the road ahead for the Tories was a rocky one . |
| 23 | He fought in both the Boer and First World Wars . |
| 24 | Xu says he is impressed with the standard of fundamental craft skills he found among both staff and students at Norwich . |
| 25 | With the outbreak of civil war in 1642 , he moved into both military and naval administration . |
| 26 | The brown and gold moulding also made the frame an ideal choice , as it harmonised with both the mount and the gold lines . |
| 27 | It acted as both a challenge and a rebuff . |
| 28 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 29 | He served with both Horse and Foot in Germany during the Seven Years ' War , an experience to which he often subsequently referred . |
| 30 | He served in both the Cabinet and the CCP politburo and was strongly tipped to become Premier following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976 . |