Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Beckett 's characters ‘ begin and end their fictional journey at the same place , in the same condition , and without having learned , discovered , or acquired the least knowledge about themselves and the world in which they exist ’ ( Federman 1965 : 4 ) . |
| 3 | It was recognized that a work of literature might employ , to advance its serious purpose , a style which resembled , or had the same effect as , the pornographer 's : here the jury was to be assisted to draw the line by experts who would offer judgments as to the degree of importance the article represented in its particular discipline . |
| 4 | Asked if moral values have got better , worse , or stayed the same over the past ten years , 82 per cent said they had got worse . |
| 5 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 6 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 7 | It was the United States ' adamant policy with respect to the PLO that made the latter 's relations with Moscow so robust . |
| 8 | The conception of a three-years honours course incorporating as many as fifteen weeks teaching practice was the component of the response that produced the most controversy inside the CNAA . |
| 9 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 10 | In the case of Peru , initially the departments that contributed the most migrants to Lima were Ancash , Junín , Ica , La Libertad and Arequipa . |
| 11 | It was the next operation that caused the most trouble . |
| 12 | As a matter of fact , the animal that caused the most trouble and some pain for me — was a little black heifer , a Galloway and shorthorn cross . |
| 13 | Nor paid the least Attention to its Charms ; |
| 14 | For another industry that followed the same path one has to look no further than the world 's steel industry . |
| 15 | Yeah , the thing that varied the less was the top and the most at the bottom and the middle was the middle . |
| 16 | The young corporal at the bolt-hole grinned and raised his thumb in a gesture that meant the same the world over . |
| 17 | There were several words that meant the same thing . |
| 18 | THE Derry side that reached the All Ireland final in 1958 will be guests of honour at a banquet in Dublin to be held in conjunction with their county 's bid to claim the Sam Maguire Cup for the first time . |
| 19 | In the period 1951–64 , of all the policy areas with which this book is concerned , it was probably education that saw the most innovation . |
| 20 | Despite sporting the same name that brought the former governor of Arkansas the mother lode of political fortune , Microsoft Corp chief executive Bill Gates says there are no politics in his future . |
| 21 | Another year over , and without doubt the subject that brought the most response was water : jug filters , built-in water filters , water scares . |
| 22 | Unfortunately , they played in blue strips and Nicholas could not face the prospect of signing for a team that wore the same colour of shirts as Rangers , and so he returned to Celtic Boys Club to await his calling from Paradise . |
| 23 | ( The system of local government would enjoy less power than did the former local Soviets . ) |
| 24 | They noted two Bisto packets , that had the same picture , were different sizes . |
| 25 | Anyway , a friend told me that there was a band a long time ago , in the '60s , that had the same name . |
| 26 | If someone said oh we do n't want two pipes it 's a bit messy , take them out and replace them by one that had the same resistance , that lets the same amount of water through , what would you replace those by ? |
| 27 | Yes , we had purchased the yellow polystyrene shampoo guard from Mothercare — that had the same effect on them as two crossed sticks had on Dracula . |
| 28 | Whereas that was one group that had the same number in fact more than that we had ninety people there . |
| 29 | British Columbia , who fielded only five of the players that tackled the All Blacks , have acquitted themselves admirably in a four-day period that has seen them take on the might of the two Antipodean giants . |
| 30 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |