Example sentences of "[to-vb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way . |
| 2 | The A.896 road through the pass remains narrow with passing places , although a few parking spaces have been cut out of the verges to accommodate the many car owners who come to walk . |
| 3 | One of the main objects of the occasion being to enable the many supporters of the Link to learn first hand from Mr Jim Coffey and his team how the results of their fund raising efforts have provided much needed aid in Romania . |
| 4 | The party congress in August 1990 amended the party constitution to enable the same person to hold both the post of party chairman and that of President of the Republic , reversing an amendment made in 1985 when Julius Nyerere stepped down as President . |
| 5 | Always to wear the same expression on one 's face whether one is going in or coming out ? ’ |
| 6 | Do you think Mummy will say I have to wear the same dress ? |
| 7 | They are n't likely to wear the same garment for six years , as Granny might do ! |
| 8 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 9 | When you all have to wear the same uniform , there is n't a great deal you can do to make yourself stand out from the crowd , but we did our best , washing and setting each other 's hair and sharing out what precious bits of makeup we owned . |
| 10 | What makes it look all the more daft is that they will often have to wear the same number tabard all the way through , which over top hat and tails makes them look like someone wearing his vest over his dinner jacket . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , The Darkside have yet to cultivate the same trick , plying a sulky , introverted bedsit groove than which shows altogether too much reverence to an image of Lou Reed on downers . |
| 12 | Unfortunately , The Darkside have yet to cultivate the same trick , plying a sulky , introverted bedsit groove than which shows altogether too much reverence to an image of Lou Reed on downers . |
| 13 | They were very glad to borrow the few Penguin books we brought along with us , even though they are not particularly light reading . |
| 14 | One of these young males , hardly 2″ yet , appears to cherish the same hope — he is almost fully coloured and busily chasing the females . |
| 15 | He reached the milestone in just under three years — but his 109 matches were five more than it took Lewis Jones , of Leeds , to hit the same target in the 1950s . |
| 16 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 17 | Clwyd Health Authority is seeking to demolish the former War Memorial Hospital in Wrexham and to get planning permission for a supermarket on the site . |
| 18 | If you ca n't , if you ca n't get home if you have to go the that play , give me ring . |
| 19 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 20 | Most patterns need to go the same way on all pieces joined , so this must be taken into account when ordering . |
| 21 | The illogicality of Black and working-class speech is a myth that has now been exploded : perhaps the illogicality of women 's speech is also mythical and should be allowed to go the same way . |
| 22 | Other MIPS RISC-based systems in Olivetti 's stable such as the M700–10 look destined to go the same way . |
| 23 | Top Nosh and air-conditioning servicing were shortly to go the same way . |
| 24 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 25 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 26 | Now the factory which developed it in the 60s looks set to go the same way . |
| 27 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 28 | Well you 're meant to go the same way as the clock goes and that means it 's you next . |
| 29 | 14 , it is more reasonable to ascribe the latter pavement to an assistant of a more competent mosaicist 's workshop . |
| 30 | In proportion as its acts tend to promote the same end , its conduct may be termed organised and its several actions correlated . |