Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] with the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does . |
| 2 | I 've learned the application techniques from the most talented people in the business and I know how to make the most of my make-up with the least effort and time . |
| 3 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 4 | I 'd slave my guts out on a case and think I 'd got it settled and a week later the woman would turn up in my office with the same dreary tale . |
| 5 | The shepherd ‘ pulls ’ the wool from his ‘ pretty lambs ’ , an experience which I imagine would not be too pleasant for the creatures but to him it is as if the sheep offer their wool with the same eagerness as he offers his gifts . |
| 6 | In my opinion , this empty disputation will eventually take its place with the many other myths of human evolution . |
| 7 | So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh . |
| 8 | The most contentious issue discussed was Latin America 's attitude to Cuba following the change in its relationship with the former Soviet Union . |
| 9 | For example , the analysis of stylistic details of the representation on a coin , such as the treatment of the hair or the eye , and its comparison with the same features in other well-dated art forms such as vase painting or sculpture , should enable a date to be applied to a coin series , particularly in a period of rapid stylistic change in the arts ( such as early Greece ) . |
| 10 | Iskandara took her hands away from her face and glared at her daughter with the same light , bright aqua-marine eyes that looked out from her mother 's portrait . |
| 11 | He swigged his champagne with such abandon that Ruth knew he had swallowed Maria Luisa 's explanation of their affair with the same ease as she had at first . |
| 12 | I think that the two variants which struck the popular fancy in my little book were royalty and red hair — the former is always a safe card to play , and its combination with the latter had a touch of novelty … |
| 13 | A rare form of Jack in the Green in which the calyx is striped along its length with the same colour as the flower . |
| 14 | Price and Hall then worked their double act for Tynemouth again and opened their account with the latter chipping over onrushing goalkeeper Lee . |
| 15 | Thus children in a primary school will spend most of their time with the same teacher in any one year , while secondary school pupils will be taught by a variety of different teachers . |
| 16 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 17 | His pale grey silk shirt hung from slackened shoulders , ruffling against his chest with the same hot breeze that ruffled her own thin blouse softly against her heaving breast . |
| 18 | Your letter was a great joy to me , a message from another human being who approaches his work with the same seriousness as I do mine , and who has consequently suffered as much under the insanities of our time … |
| 19 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 20 | She treated his body with the same gentle reverence as he had used : her soft capable hands caressing him as she massaged the oil into his skin . |
| 21 | Dandelion took up his cue with the same plucky readiness that he had shown in the wood . |
| 22 | He looked very like his mother with the same round head on a delicate neck , the same beautifully shaped mouth . |
| 23 | Perhaps you have had a similar experience , or know of a dog in your area with the same background ? |