Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 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 | Nor paid the least Attention to its Charms ; |
| 6 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 7 | ‘ Yet we still sat next to each other on the team bus and shared the same room . |
| 8 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 9 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 10 | This culture , and all subsequent isolates that were identified as the epidemic strain , belonged to bacteriocin type S3/P0:ribotype A , and shared the same CHEF profile . |
| 11 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 12 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 13 | I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question . |
| 14 | Yours is one case I will always remember not for the large number of witnesses , but for the meeting of a man who right from the first impressed his lawyers with his innocence a conviction that grew and grew the more that one went into the case and met the many people who knew Andy Beattie so well . ’ |
| 15 | A few other Labour MPs lent support , and met the same fate — notably Charles Trevelyan , last of the surviving ex-UDC Liberals in the Parliamentary Party . |
| 16 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 17 | Check to see that they are secure and looped the same way on each half of the kite . |
| 18 | The old Eythrope house which had stood near to Bridge Lodge had belonged to the Earls of Chesterfield , who had pulled it down in 1810 and made the most of the high price of building materials then prevailing owing to the Napoleonic wars . |
| 19 | Kalm was an excellent observer , a meticulous recorder and made the most of his time at the Physic Garden , which he judged to rival those of Paris and Leyden at the time , and believed it to ‘ overgo them in North American plants ’ . |
| 20 | He caught the hint of wistfulness in her voice and made the most of it quickly . |
| 21 | Nothing daunted , the mourners moved over to one side and made the most of this grand reunion . |
| 22 | He staged lavish spectacles to signify the granting of favour to a subordinate-ruler , again " in the style of Roman emperors " and made the most of the great assemblies in which king and aristocracy joined to " maintain the healthy condition of the whole realm " . |
| 23 | Abraham got the bounce of the ball and made the most of it with a cracking shot . |
| 24 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |
| 25 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 26 | Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times . |
| 27 | Stupidly , the English followed us and made the same mistake . |
| 28 | To convince myself I eventually performed the ultimate in Doubting Thomas exercises , trained some chicks using the inhibitors , and got the same result . |
| 29 | He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both . |
| 30 | So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely ! |