Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [vb base] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am very pleased to be part of the same family and to know that my parents feel the same . |
| 2 | Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ? |
| 3 | Like the oppressed people in the working class communities throughout Britain , the people in my community suffer the same pain and the same negative imagery as our counterparts in the Third World . |
| 4 | In my second thoughts my aims remain the same , but are more thoroughly developed : and all these grovelling references to ‘ great ’ historians and their ‘ brilliant ’ works have been extirpated . |
| 5 | As far as wrinkles and saggy bits go , the majority of my friends look the same , and I do n't waste five hours on daily maintenance like Cher . |
| 6 | My clothes remain the same . |
| 7 | However , Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. was dealing with a different statute , which did not concern statutory regulatory powers , and which does not in my judgment have the same considerations of urgency . |
| 8 | Flagstad gave the songs their première , so it 's intriguing to hear her successor bring the same kind of broad sweep , sincerity of purpose and rewarding breath-control to them . |
| 9 | Reading an article in a trade journal reminded me of how far behind we are in the use of fluids in this country , by embalmers whose end product never varies and , therefore , their cases look the same and last the same , and funnily enough the noses and around the mouths grey off — the eternal question again ! |
| 10 | Although Landsats 4 and 5 have a lower orbital altitude ( 705 km ) than Landsats 1–3 , their orbits cover the same proportion of the Earth 's surface — that between 82°N and S latitude . |
| 11 | That 's one of the things , I think , that the Roman Catholics who hanker after the old Latin Mass and its ritual miss the most , and I sympathize with them in the sense that there is n't a great deal of mystery about most of the worship in most of our churches any more , and whilst it 's very right and proper for us to be very busy on practical matters , we must n't forget that there are very mysterious questions about our purpose here , about death and life , which are n't answered simply by doing things and being very busy — in fact , that may be a form of escapism — we need both , and I would hope that there will be room again in Christianity in Europe for worship to become something which speaks to the things I find mysterious , and in that respect I think the interest in spirituality and religious experience , in mysticism , in all those sort of areas about one 's personal religious life , and a lot of it not very orthodox or traditional . |
| 12 | Yet their deeds have the same perverted outcome . |
| 13 | An officer who had lived on Guernsey also made a reconnaissance of that island before Ronnie Tod and John Durnford-Slater visited it in their July raid the same year . |
| 14 | ‘ I babysit for them about once a fortnight while Graham stays at home with our own children , and she or her husband do the same for us , ’ explains Sally . |
| 15 | They are numerically the largest group of people at risk , they present the most complex problems and their needs have the most impact on families and communities . |
| 16 | Even the critic Arthur Jerome Eddy , who was the author of the first English book on Cubism and a cautious supporter of the movement , was able to write : ‘ In short Picasso and a few followers have reached a degree of abstraction in the suppression of the real and the particular that their paintings represent the same degree of emotion as the demonstration of a difficult geometrical proposition . ’ |
| 17 | With hindsight , I now feel that i should have put more effort into explaining these two very difficult concepts , particularly imaginary time , which seems to be the thing in the book with which people have the most trouble . |
| 18 | Which names have the same rhythm ? |
| 19 | The new leaders will in their turn suffer the same fate : but that is an irony of life which is not apparent to everyone . |
| 20 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |
| 21 | You lot talk the same as to talk . |
| 22 | And yet friends and acquiantances of a similar age and background are often those whose views have the most impact . |
| 23 | Western languages may use puns or play on similar-sounding words , but there are few , if any , direct equivalents to the Chinese tendency to give the same symbolic meaning to an object and a quality whose names sound the same . |
| 24 | From a Marxist view , a class is a social group whose members share the same relationship to the means of production . |
| 25 | A class in itself is simply a social group whose members share the same relationship to the means of production . |
| 26 | dried root strongly violet-scented increasing with age ; used as fixative in potpourri , in perfumery manufacture , as part of " frangipani " , the Italian perfume named after the tropical tree whose flowers have the same fragrance |
| 27 | We adults do the same : we come home from work and start complaining or picking a fight . |
| 28 | You shake a sheaf of poems in the face of killers ; you do paintings with Uncle Sam as an anaconda ; and writers talk of five centuries of resistance to oppressors who may change-colonists , missionaries , generals , coke bosses-but whose victims remain the same . |
| 29 | I 'd batter any German who came down our street , and all me neighbours say the same . ’ |
| 30 | Twice the Devil has been decisively defeated by God , but his strategies remain the same . |