Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Guardian and Daily Mail alone stayed in the same ownership throughout the period . |
| 2 | No species is inviolate , else the individuals would live indefinitely — a soul forever entombed in the same body ; and this is not the purpose and meaning of life . |
| 3 | In Through the Looking Glass , you will remember , the Red Queen seized Alice by the hand and dragged her , faster and faster , on a frenzied run through the countryside , but no matter how fast they ran they always stayed in the same place . |
| 4 | The aircraft Crew Chief had a routine that he followed when opening the bomb doors and he always stood in the same place ; fairly adjacent to one of the doors . |
| 5 | You had this lump of rock that you dangled from a thread and people discovered that it always pointed in the same direction , so if you were on board , a ship for the first time people were able to travel in a ship without having to hug a coast all the way across or navigate to where they could see . |
| 6 | He also announced in the same speech the Government 's first considered response to Strangeways ; they would introduce a new offence of prison mutiny with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 7 | There , at least , the new novelists — secular though they were — and Christian revivalists like Tolkien were altogether at one ; and Lord of the Flies and The Lord of the Rings , which coincidentally appeared in the same year , share that large element in common . |
| 8 | However , the court also said in the same paragraph that Regulation ( E.E.C. ) No. 101/76 required member states to respect the principle that there should be no discrimination against nationals of other member states . |
| 9 | On Jan. 1 Bhanu Pratap Singh resigned as Governor of Karnataka and was replaced by Khurshid Alam Khan , governor of Goa , who also remained in the latter post . |
| 10 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 11 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 12 | There he attracted his employer 's attention with a polite cough , then whispered in the latter 's ear : ‘ I 'm very sorry , sir , but there appears to be a tiger in the dining room . |
| 13 | He never played in the same pub twice in the same month ; even so , word got around among the regulars . |
| 14 | In fact , Donaldson and Balfour , and nearly all the researchers who followed them , gave children questions with more on one occasion , and questions with less on another , so the two terms never appeared in the same session or the same block . |
| 15 | He never slept in the same place , and his meals were prepared mostly by women he trusted — his partner , Vicky Amado and her mother . |