Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb base] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when I step off the bus at the Coronet cinema I get the same lurch as when I first left home . |
| 2 | See the more winners you ride the less weight less you could claim . |
| 3 | While TNCs are certainly to be found in a wide variety of economic sectors they share the same basic function of capital accumulation on a global scale , and the same consistent character of having to work out global strategies to ensure their continued growth . |
| 4 | In the litter tray they do the same thing , but if it has been used several times without being properly cleaned out this becomes impossible and the cat will then prefer to defecate elsewhere , even if it has to go through the motions of covering its dung with imaginary earth after it has deposited it on a wooden floor or a carpet . |
| 5 | This scheme means that instead of paying quarterly bills you pay the same amount into your electricity or gas account each month . |
| 6 | Just the handling of equipment , and the new video equipment being delivered , and the hope that the division will invest in its own equipment , erm maybe it 's just a question really , do n't know if people here could help to answer it , but erm the more video equipment we have the more problems we have actually with erm just keeping it all up together , keeping it all working , and it is a constant problem with stuff being borrowed and coming back with bits missing or bits not functioning , mostly leads . |
| 7 | ‘ And then of course you need the same set-up in Europe . |
| 8 | Reading through the press comment on Wilde we find the same fear of cross-over between sexual perversion and intellectual and moral subversion . |
| 9 | The poor chap 's in a state of terror in case we do the same to him . |
| 10 | This combination of specimens could be recognized either by grouping them into a single genus or into a tribe , and on present evidence I favour the latter alternative and suggest the Afropithecini as a suitable name . |
| 11 | saying at this mediterranean diet that the more fruit and veg you eat the less chance you 've got of heart disease and cancer |
| 12 | BUT EVERY DAY WE HEAR THE SAME EXCUSES FROM GOVERNMENTS . |
| 13 | To the extent that a partial offer and a tender offer relate to less than 30 per cent of a company 's voting rights they cover the same ground . |
| 14 | Writing from two very different political positions they draw the same conclusion : the Congo experience had a traumatic effect upon Nkrumah 's view of Ghana 's relations with Britain , the United States and the Commonwealth . |
| 15 | Of course , at the end of the day they pay the same for them whether directly or through taxation , but if they pay for them directly , in return for service or as private insurance , then their incentives to work for them are greater and the economy benefits . |
| 16 | Those who changed back to shorter repayment periods , because in this example they carry the same total credit cost as longer ones , show what must be the widely-held feeling that , regardless of loan period , the lower the total cost of credit the better . |
| 17 | I find that some of the ‘ B ’ band kids are doing the same syllabus , and in some cases they get the same marks or better marks than us , yet they ca n't do ‘ O ’ level and they 're in the ‘ B ’ band . |
| 18 | They are men who rationally weigh up the advantage of conformity to criminal demands or staying on the path of righteousness ; for the most part they choose the former simply because it does not weigh on their conscience and because it seems more likely to secure economic and career advancement within the corporation . |
| 19 | And that that came round er I mean they were stamped and er the turn you know the each I I do n't I do n't remember what what they were examined , but er th you know the the that was the law that they had to be . |
| 20 | However , utterances of ( 38 ) -(40) and the like can in fact convey a great deal : ( 38 ) War is war ( 39 ) Either John will come or he wo n't ( 40 ) If he does it , he does it Note that these , by virtue of their logical forms ( respectively : x ( W(x) — W(x) ) ; p V p ; p — p ) are necessarily true ; ergo they share the same truth conditions , and the differences we feel to lie between them , as well as their communicative import , must be almost entirely due to their pragmatic implications . |
| 21 | My Search reveals that the property is within a conservation area and this means that if there are any trees growing on the property they have the same protection as trees the subject of a Tree Preservation Order . |
| 22 | Like most butterflies they share the same basic life cycle . |
| 23 | If a husband and wife are the adopters they have the same rights as against one another , and as against the adopted child , as if they were the child 's natural father and mother . |
| 24 | In many great collections , you can tell that all the items are related , by the way they share the same style of presentation . |
| 25 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 26 | In one of the photographs we show the latter being used to cut off a water pipe close to the floor . |