Example sentences of "[verb] the [det] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 2 | I got so used , we used to go the same way all the time . |
| 3 | In 1890 the Edinburgh Deaf and Dumb Benevolent Society acquired its present premises at 49 Albany Street , where the Congregational Church was also erected the same year next door . |
| 4 | In practice the demands of the administration made the latter appointment impractical . |
| 5 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 6 | Using the same information available for a sequential description , however , it is possible to organise an essay in more interesting ways . |
| 7 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 8 | I must not make the same mistake this time . |
| 9 | The plan that produces the least CO 2 costs less than simply letting market forces prevail , because its high level of energy efficiency saves enough money to pay for the investment needed to switch to biomass production . |
| 10 | Because they will always want the same price that |
| 11 | I would qualify this by suggesting that you ask yourself if you could bear to be knitting the same garment twenty years hence . |
| 12 | Of course , it 's always there , but the walls and towers appear to have moved when they were not being watched , or maybe they are in the same place , but the adventurers are n't seeing the same thing all the time . |
| 13 | We 're not sure if this photo of him was taken during his sales training , or because he had won the half year professional sails guild award last year . |
| 14 | The backroom staff might also include the former City stalwart Paul Power , who finished his First Division career at Everton after being signed by Kendall . |
| 15 | The backroom staff might also include the former City stalwart Paul Power , who finished his First Division career at Everton after being signed by Kendall . |
| 16 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 18 | But McDonald has never enjoyed the same profile this side of the Atlantic . |
| 19 | Let us consider the latter theory first and see where it falls short . |
| 20 | Very likely he expects a bambina — even Constanza found they did n't speak the same language any more . |
| 21 | Hammers reckon they were robbed … but then again Swindon have suffered the same fate this season … so it was their turn to sing and dance … |
| 22 | Imagine the same man 30 years later . |
| 23 | Finally , I suppose to salve our consciences , we put the same bet each way on a horse for Dr Barnardo 's Homes . |
| 24 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 25 | ( iv ) Conveyance or transfer pursuant to court order with husband being released from the mortgage ( wife assuming liability ) ( Eg Precedents 5 , 6 , 19 and 20 ) It was this type of conveyance which caused the most difficulty prior to the passing of the Finance Act 1985 because the Stamp Act 1891 , s57 triggered a charge to stamp duty ( see above ) . |
| 26 | ‘ Does he do the same thing all day ? ’ she shouted to Wilcox , after they had watched one such man at work for some minutes . |
| 27 | Explain the problem if you must as a difference in approach to the job ; if you denigrate a previous boss the interviewer will assume that you will do the same thing next time around . |
| 28 | And now , writing the same novel all his life , Dostoevsky finds himself doomed to confront suicide as deed , perhaps life 's one deed and therefore the podvig he is seeking . |
| 29 | It holds more true of some of us than of others , that in the struggle to make it new we are writing the same book all our lives ; and with Dostoevsky this truth is very true . |
| 30 | William 's navy had failed dismally in not intercepting James 's convoy on its way from Brest in March and now the Comte de Châteaurenault [ or Château Renault ] had made the same voyage unchallenged , only being brought to battle on Wednesday 1 May 1689 , as he prepared to leave his anchorage . |