Example sentences of "[conj] [vb infin] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
2 | Bad debts are kept low because of the ‘ common bond ’ which members of a union must share , ie they must live or work in the same neighbourhood , or belong to the same organisation , such as a church . |
3 | lines of type that do not start or end at the same position . |
4 | Possible definitions of co-ordinate are , to place or classify in the same order or rank ; to combine or integrate harmoniously . |
5 | You can forgive or punish at the same time ca n't you , you can punish somebody and say that is wrong and yet you forgive them , that is you do n't hold it against them but you later on . |
6 | ‘ It 's impossible to cry and inhale at the same time . |
7 | ‘ I was only asking why you waste so much time stealing stuff you ca n't eat and then waste more time stealing dogs when you could steal and eat at the same time , as it were . ’ |
8 | His accuracy and stinginess with runs made him almost without equal as a one-day bowler , for he could both contain and attack at the same time since the bounce he got from his great height and the control he had over the ball gave him the extra penetration that brought wickets . |
9 | Given the difficulties of monetary base control , would you expect M0 and broader measures of the money supply , such as M4 , to rise and fall by the same percentage as each other ? |
10 | ‘ Because everybody goes and jumps in the river is no reason why we have to go and jump in the same river . ’ |
11 | ( b ) Both matrix and fibril may deform elastically and yield at the same strain . |
12 | My previous relationships have all been with women I 've been able to like and respect at the same time as I 've desired them . ’ |
13 | Historians will find rich material , and so will the general reader prepared to browse and surrender to the many different idioms , rhythms and personalities revealed here . |
14 | Yes , you could think and dance at the same time . |
15 | Try to push and lift at the same time — go on , try to get the back wheels off the ground as you go along ! |
16 | ‘ Power and knowledge directly imply each other … there is no power relation without the correlative constitution of a field of knowledge , nor any knowledge that does not presuppose and constitute at the same time power relations ’ ( Foucault , 1977 : 27 ) . |
17 | And that 's telling 'em — Jess thought , wanting to cheer and boo at the same time . |
18 | Can a heart rise and sink at the same time ? |
19 | Nothing else would change , though , the north geographic pole would n't move , and if we were to go outside to check up , the sun would still rise and set in the same place , and the Pole Star would appear at night over the local gas works . |
20 | try to arrange to live and sleep in the same room |
21 | And those eyes that seemed to dance and scowl at the same time from beneath their fringe of long dark lashes gave him a restless , unpredictable air . |
22 | The recent blurring of distinctions between gay and straight clubs is a welcome development : ‘ I 'd really like to educate and entertain at the same time . |
23 | What a heavenly dilemma : I wanted to stay and go at the same time . |
24 | Or perhaps there was some other , unofficial entrance , and right now she was getting ready to give up and leave by the same way . |
25 | Head of Presentation , Dave Jamieson explains that all three regional bulletins on Central must begin and end at the same time . |
26 | After Belfast , he knew what women could do and smile at the same time . |
27 | The eyes that were violet like his mother 's were strangely secretive , seeming to frown and smile at the same time . |
28 | It was Irene , for instance , who pointed out something I 'd never been able to put my finger on : that Tod ca n't talk and smile at the same time . |
29 | Scientists now know how they do it — by using a special part of the voice box , which is why they can purr and miaow at the same time . |
30 | The secondary plate , enabling the creatures to chew and breathe at the same time , is also a mammalian characteristic . |