Example sentences of "[prep] the [det] [noun sg] i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 2 | For the same reason I dictate my memoirs in the centre of a maze . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps for the same reason I foolishly asked you to stay with Anna in the first place , ’ he snarled . |
| 4 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 5 | Were we talking about the same sister I wondered . |
| 6 | Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways . |
| 7 | About the same time I heard gunfire . |
| 8 | For at about the same time I was approached by the secretary of Edinburgh 's New Club which as a member of Brooks 's Club in London I was entitled to use on a reciprocal basis , and which I did use for lunch perhaps a dozen times a year . |
| 9 | Of course , the others laughed at him but he insisted and said that at about the same time I thought I 'd seen Sir Bartholomew , a stranger had arrived in the village late at night and stopped at the ale-house for food and drink . |
| 10 | An example of the latter point I made is shown on pg 45 where he tells of how he came to know Eddie . |
| 11 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |
| 12 | That device — whatever the hell it is — that I found in Magee was made of the same material I found melted in the other bodies . ’ |
| 13 | I ca n't believe the review is of the same show I saw . |
| 14 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 15 | I conclude this survey of Ingleborough with the same reluctance I feel when leaving the mountain after a day spent in its company , aware that I have failed to do justice to an old friend . |
| 16 | Given the new licensing laws for teachers I shall give them some experience of the post 16+ area before embarking on the lower school work with which under the former arrangement I would normally have begun . |
| 17 | In the ‘ Notes ’ under the same date I have written something I always wanted to remember : ‘ The walk at night . |
| 18 | ‘ We made love , but life will carry on , and while we 're under the same roof I think a verbal truce is in order . ’ |
| 19 | Er again , it 's all down to where you 're going to stand to take the photograph , and I 'm not so sure that you I think you 've gone a little , no you know , I , I criticized the other one a bit , from the same person I think it possibly is because it 's the same style , the same sort of mounting . |
| 20 | The contrast between humanist and Christian values in relation to individual responsibility struck me very forcefully recently when within the same day I happened to read Free to Choose , Milton and Rose Friedman 's recent book in defence of economic freedoms , and a sermon of John Wesley , on ‘ The Use of Money ’ , first given in London in 1748 . |
| 21 | Why , the galaxy is so vast that in the latter case I could continue to pose — and behave — as an Inquisitor ; though I would truly be a renegade … ’ |
| 22 | In the latter case I would be more likely to give you options and a reason , by saying : ‘ Would you mind moving slightly . |
| 23 | In the latter account I have described a situation in which the major parties each have a reservoir of virtually guaranteed electoral support , based on the traditional connection between the parties and the two ‘ classes ’ of British society ( which I have termed ‘ social collectivities ’ to distinguish them from classes defined at the level of property relations ) , the ‘ middle class ’ and the ‘ working class ’ . |
| 24 | In the same way I was unable to do much else but grin and bear it when my then assistant chief constable ( crime ) , Ken Oxford ( later to be the chief constable of Merseyside ) implicitly restated police concepts of correct bodily order , when he jokingly told a group of visiting journalists who had come to do a story on this wayward group of detectives , ‘ we pay him a plain clothes allowance you know ’ . |
| 25 | In the same way I am sure Proops was . |
| 26 | The Portrait of the Artist extract is more difficult , in the same way I think the Lawrence extract is difficult . |
| 27 | In the same way I felt compelled to write an angry , ranting letter after the band 's last appearance in NME , so I now feel compelled again . |
| 28 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 29 | God 's explanation of this little piece of street theatre ran as follows : you did n't punish the gourd when it failed you , did you ; and in the same way I 'm not going to punish Nineveh . |
| 30 | Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art . |