Example sentences of "[verb] they both [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 2 | In any one place , the two species gain by resembling each other , because predators will treat them both as the same kind of prey ; but few predators move far enough for there to be any advantage to the Heliconius in looking the same in distant places . |
| 3 | He has placed them both on the sofa under the magnificent painting of a Ramayana demon by his Thai protegé , not facing one another across his huge desk , to indicate that this is an intimate and informal interview , not to be taken too seriously whatever she says . |
| 4 | Taking a step back , he flung the blanket aside , cursing aloud as the movement wrenched his arm , and lowered them both to the hard bench . |
| 5 | However , the most notable feature of these accounts is not so much their dating , as the apparent belief in St Augustine 's , where Goscelin spent the last years of his life , that Cnut visited them both on the way to and from Rome . |
| 6 | I think he 's passing them both on the same time . |
| 7 | The Prince rose and waved him round the table to the chair next to his before serving them both with the best wine the clerk had tasted in months . |
| 8 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 9 | The manors were the natural complement to Gloucester 's lordship of Sheriff Hutton and he was later to farm them both from the crown . |
| 10 | I welcome them both to the Board . |
| 11 | Mother ! ’ almost lifted them both from the couch . |
| 12 | In fact , only one serious relationship lay behind her , with a Wellington actor who read news bulletins in order to eat , and it had died owing to lack of feeling , disappointing them both at the time , but Maria had philosophically absorbed the lesson at the heart of the sad experience . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all right , love , ’ Mitch said soothingly , leading them both to the horses . |
| 14 | " Let's not hang about , " Collins said , ushering them both into the darkened hallway . |
| 15 | The meagre rations — two lumps of meat and a few strands of pasta in thin soup — were to last them both for the whole day . |
| 16 | The prosecution alleges Laing killed them both for the sake of stealing a car the family had advertised . |
| 17 | Once he even knocked them both down the stairs and sent them to bed with no dinner because they had returned with nothing . |
| 18 | He bent down , still trying to keep them both at the same height . |
| 19 | He pulled them both under the blanket , cradled her to him , crooned words that meant nothing in her ear , kissed new tears from her cheeks . |
| 20 | He covered them both with the cool sheets but he had no intention of giving up his questioning . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sorry I took so long — ’ Jenna started apologetically , but he interrupted smoothly , standing and motioning them both to the door . |
| 22 | ‘ Come , come , ’ their neighbour said , taking them both by the hand . |
| 23 | One day he saw them both through the window of a hotel bar when he was sitting on a bus in Shaftesbury Avenue . |
| 24 | Keen-sighted people can distinguish them both with the naked eye . |
| 25 | Equally unsatisfactory is the decision that Harold Newstead , a bachelor hairdresser living in Camberwell , was libelled by a perfectly accurate court report that another Harold Newstead , also a Camberwell resident , had been gaoled for bigamy ( " I kept them both till the police interfered " ) . |
| 26 | Loc seized them both by the arm and forced them to run with him towards the jungle . |
| 27 | But I think I knew about her and her mother long before I looked them both in the face , or heard about their existence ; knew that the half-understood adult conversations around me , the quarrels about " her " , the litany of " she " , " she " , " she " from behind closed doors made the figure in the New Look coat , hurrying away , wearing the clothes my mother wanted to wear , angry with me yet nervously inviting me to follow , caught finally in the revolving door . |
| 28 | Another appalling accident — on Parchamo when partner Mal Duff 's crampon failed precipitating them both down the mountain — dented his psychological readjustment following the Andes accident described in Touching the Void , but has n't destroyed it . |
| 29 | You use the same kind of glass , you put the same amount of ice in each glass and you leave them both in the same place ( so that they are both at the same temperature ) . |
| 30 | Elaborate precautions were taken to avoid disputes over precedence between the representatives of France and Spain ( the long-standing rivalry between these two states was the most serious potential source of this kind of friction ) by placing them both on the king 's right and at the same distance from him . |