Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] in [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
| 3 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
| 4 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
| 5 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 6 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 7 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
| 8 | Out of each battle , when the person dies , his replacement — his ghost-appears in the same tinted colour and keeps the unit up to complement . |
| 9 | It has n't been a disastrous trip for me , but I got in a few times without going on to a really big score . ’ |
| 10 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 12 | FIGURE 3 I put in a few plants growing outside the window . |
| 13 | And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him . |
| 14 | This time lag , however , dies not always occur , as I show in the same study , and we are not in a situation to make the kind of general assumption made by Morgan and Engels . |
| 15 | But how could I achieve in a few minutes what I had failed to accomplish after hours of trying ? |
| 16 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
| 17 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
| 18 | But most of my time I spent in the many and varied mosques , and each day I went back to Hagia Sophia , sometimes remaining for hours . |
| 19 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 20 | This created two new corners , which I treated in the same way , and so on till I achieved the shape marked out . |
| 21 | I looked in the same direction and saw a group of men standing and staring at us . |
| 22 | And I respond in the same way . |
| 23 | If I stay in the same place for too long I get stale . ’ |
| 24 | But I think in the few months that this administration has er , has been in office , it is encouraging to see that the county council is operating inside the budget , er , which I believe was actually set by the previous administration , erm , er over which we had no influence whatsoever . |
| 25 | He and I live in the same street . |
| 26 | How can he have the nerve to stand there calm and composed and expect me to behave in the same way ? she thought angrily . |
| 27 | In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs . |
| 28 | The case would go to appeal on the issue of whether West German law could apply to events which occurred in the former East German state . |
| 29 | Average January temperatures are below freezing point , even as far south as Bitola , which lies in the same latitude as Naples . |
| 30 | In Yemen , seismic activity has commenced in our Hood block which lies in the same province as the oil fields recently discovered in the adjacent Masila area . |