Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [to-vb] 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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | I want to catch the same train out you see |
| 11 | ‘ Probably , but I want to make the most of every minute . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope to do the same in London this year as I did last — win it . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 15 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 16 | If I try to enter the same thing , it does n't work . |
| 17 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 18 | Clarke said : ‘ Joining Bath has changed my career and I aim to make the most of this chance . ’ |
| 19 | There was no water-borne sanitation , and every other day Tidey and I had to empty the few sanitary buckets , burying their contents in holes dug in the garden , as well as trying to keep the houses clean and collecting fruit and vegetables . |
| 20 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 21 | It 's bad enough having to take out a loan to get married , I sometimes wonder if I need to do the same as a bridesmaid ! |
| 22 | Do you think Mummy will say I have to wear the same dress ? |
| 23 | I 've just come to realise : this is my life , I do n't know how long I 've got , I might as well enjoy that time being me , because I 'm stuck with this body , this face , this skin colour ; I have to make the most of it . |
| 24 | Not that I have to make the same choices as someone I acknowledge to be more discriminating , since my differently constituted palate may react differently , but my own choice will be better informed if I heed nuances which I would have missed if he had not pointed them out . |
| 25 | Thus completed , he signed the form ‘ accepting and submitting himself to the statutes , rules , regulations and ordinances of McGill University and of the Faculty or Faculties in which I am registered , and to any amendments thereto which may be made while I am a student of the university and I promise to observe the same . ’ |
| 26 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 27 | of the District Council which happens to meet the same day as the County Council and the Economic Development Panel so if I can get a copy fast enough I will get one over here and that same week it will be formally preserved |
| 28 | Now that we have looked at Wharram Percy deserted village and seen something of the 30-year long excavations there , we should look at other studies and excavations on village sites which seem to suggest the same developments implied at Wharram Percy . |
| 29 | An early temple in Sicily had a huge terracotta Gorgon-mask in the gable-centre ; and groups of fighting animals , which seem to have the same function , adorn other early pediments . |
| 30 | The age distribution of the working population for two countries , one developed and one developing , which happen to have the same sized labour force is shown in fig. 1.7 . |