Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [to-vb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 7 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 8 | I went to see the former legionnaire at the pub in Paddington where he was working . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles . |
| 13 | No matter how hard she tried to make the most of herself Sally had always been aware that she could not hope to rival Paula and the knowledge had damaged her self-confidence so that she always lived with the feeling that people on meeting her for the first time would exclaim behind after back : ‘ Paula 's sister ? |
| 14 | TNT let-off CONTRACTORS who tried to demolish the former Brymbo steelworks melting shop with explosives without first obtaining the necessary council permission are not to be prosecuted . |
| 15 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 16 | You chose to play the same game . |
| 17 | She was afraid to look round again , but the other housemaid was ready to carry soup bowls to the table and she had to do the same . |
| 18 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 19 | It was unlikely that there would be many more occasions like this , and she wanted to make the most of it . |
| 20 | Against that , though , was the fact that , if he and his secretary were still away , she stood to have the same unsatisfactory conversation with the lady with a little English as before . |
| 21 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 22 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 23 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 24 | We did n't have much , so we learned to make the most of what we did have , and if a man was lucky enough to have a job he put everything into it . |
| 25 | After er , purchasing we continued to produce the same materials erm , mainly er , directed towards the saddlery trade . |
| 26 | we had to make the most of it ! |
| 27 | Elizabeth Adams : ‘ I think perhaps I did not require from Somerville as much as I might here , fromJean Stanier : ‘ Somehow the fact that it was wartime put a sharper edge on things , as if we had to make the most of something that might not last ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ David gives us that little bit extra , though we wanted to play the same tight 4–4-2 formation . |
| 29 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 30 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |