Example sentences of "[verb] the [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jeremy Vole met the two hedgehogs as they joined the crowd . |
| 2 | The confidentiality claim met the same fate as the other arguments . |
| 3 | It met the same fate as its predecessors . |
| 4 | I met the old lady as I was walking down a steep path out of the village . |
| 5 | The solid curve in Fig. 8.5 is the GR prediction and fits the changing delay as Venus moves through superior conjunction extremely well . |
| 6 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 7 | However , in 1986 the Court of Appeal gave its approval to a much less interventionist approach : " Scum " was a powerful drama about the treatment of young offenders , which depicted the Borstal system as encouraging rather than deterring violent behaviour . |
| 8 | Although he undoubtedly did not see it as such , what Jesus Christ was really doing was fighting to uphold the Second Choice as specified in this book . |
| 9 | Mum says we can stay the ten minutes as long as we ai n't a nuisance . ’ |
| 10 | It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime . |
| 11 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He took me to the dance , it 's true , ’ said Hyacinth , her temper showing , ‘ but I ditched the ginger swine as soon as I possibly could . ’ |
| 13 | Even this rate of increase in the official price indices hardly records the real impact as large quantities of food were only available on the black market . |
| 14 | Again the élitism in the department is largely symbolic , for although detectives talk continuously of their special knowledge of the world of ‘ prigs ’ , and despise the uniform branch as ‘ wollies ’ , often it is the uniform ‘ polis ’ who responds to a call and effects the ‘ capture ’ , after which the detective moves in to ‘ squeeze him dry ’ . |
| 15 | It is a building of great age dating back to the end of the 12th century , or the beginning of the 13th , the actual date of its building has been lost , but Fielding gives us a clue in his records by naming the first Chaplain as Michael de Painton , before 1319 , and William de Kucklestane Chaplain of St. Lawrence 1319–44 and also of Dode , so it seems that Upper Hailing shared a Minister these many years ago . |
| 16 | Cruising Altitude passed the pacemaking Floyd as they crossed the final hurdle and he looked all set for a comfortable victory . |
| 17 | The appellant appealed pursuant to section 19A(2) of the Act on the grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) the judge failed to consider a wide range of relevant factors in deciding whether to make the order ; ( 2 ) the judge applied the wrong test as to whether the appellant had acted unreasonably ; ( 3 ) the judge failed to give reasons for the making of the order and neither ascertained the amount of wasted costs incurred , nor what party had incurred the wasted costs ; and ( 4 ) had wrongly used the section 19A procedure to punish the appellant . |
| 18 | Environmentalists have criticized the new measures as insufficient . |
| 19 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 20 | The rich , the good , the pretty , the blessed all shared the same fate as the poor , the bad , the ugly , the deprived . |
| 21 | Rufus did not even know if animal bones shared the same names as those of humans . |
| 22 | ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’ |
| 23 | We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price . |
| 24 | Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day . |
| 25 | Well you 're meant to go the same way as the clock goes and that means it 's you next . |
| 26 | Durnin plays the winning hand as United come up trumps against Luton . |
| 27 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 28 | No sir , my job was then to pass over to Mr who made the ultimate decision as to what to do about the incident . |
| 29 | One who did made the same point as many arts students : |
| 30 | For example , the words ’ made ’ , ’ making ’ and ’ makes ’ are all assigned the same index as the word ’ make ’ . |