Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hate it when people cry , cos it makes me want to do the same thing . |
| 2 | They 're just confirming that not everyone has to sing the same song . |
| 3 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 4 | There 's so many good bands and good records being made but the audience for them has remained the same size . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe , if the game was against Australia or New Zealand Alan Tait would have been preferred , but Mal Reilly is building for the future and now I have my chance I intend to make the most of it . ’ |
| 6 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 7 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 8 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 9 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 10 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 11 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 12 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 13 | I want to catch the same train out you see |
| 14 | ‘ Probably , but I want to make the most of every minute . |
| 15 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 16 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 17 | Thus I learned that Chaplin was dead and so was Elvis ( I 'd thought the former long since gone but this intelligence of Presley startled me ) , that Iranians had held Americans hostage , administered show trials and televised humiliation ; that a geriatric cowboy had become President of the mightiest nation on earth all in all , show biz news . |
| 18 | As usual I just wished I 'd ordered the same as her : a bowl of smoked bacon and Roquefort cheese salad with garlic croutons . |
| 19 | ‘ I hope to do the same in London this year as I did last — win it . |
| 20 | Better said , what I think is what I have thought , or that is to say , that I continue thinking the same . ’ |
| 21 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 22 | After tearing both my ACL and MCL ( medial collateral ligament ) in a skiing accident last season , I decided to take the latter course and found that I could ski relatively safely with the aid of a brace . |
| 23 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 24 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 25 | If I try to enter the same thing , it does n't work . |
| 26 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 27 | Clarke said : ‘ Joining Bath has changed my career and I aim to make the most of this chance . ’ |
| 28 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 29 | During the war I had felt the same about those they were attacking , the brave men of the Allied merchant fleets . |
| 30 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |