Example sentences of "[noun pl] [Wh pn] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 . |
| 2 | Labour identifiers who read left-wing papers saw more pro-Labour bias in these papers than Conservatives who read the same set of papers ( Table 6.8 ) . |
| 3 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 4 | He wished he could be sure of always working with police officers who brought the same degree of tireless persistence and intelligent analysis to solving a puzzle . |
| 5 | Mailed and heavily armed knights were an upper military class , with associated servants who undertook the many tasks needed to maintain both knight , horse and arms , before and after a conflict . |
| 6 | Bears ' skipper Steve Regeling was the only one to match the consistent riding of the visitors ' heat leaders who included the former Boro favourite Martin Dixon with heavy strapping over damaged ribs , but still able to make his track knowledge count . |
| 7 | Both talks came about as a result of requests from friends who attended the same BSc course as Philip and are now teachers . |
| 8 | Most of my revision in my first and second years was done the night before and I managed to get through but a lot of friends who did the same did n't . |
| 9 | When he announces his side tonight following training , it is safe to assume that McGrath will include perhaps as many as thirteen of the players who won the All That 's the kind of experience they will take into the match — and perhaps may yet parade in the Ulster final . |
| 10 | It is difficult to compare the perceptions of Labour and Conservative identifiers who read the same paper since the numbers in our sample who read any one paper were low and tended to be drawn predominantly from one party or another . |
| 11 | Conservatives who read right-wing papers saw more pro-Conservative bias in these papers than Labour identifiers who read the same set of right-wing papers . |
| 12 | None the less , Conservatives who read right-wing papers saw more pro-Conservative bias in these papers than Labour identifiers who read the same set of right-wing papers . |
| 13 | Apart from finding globules of mercury in people 's shoes , a contemporary commentator , and opponent of this form of treatment , describes two men who used the same tavern regularly and both having supped from their little bottles of mercury would smoke a pipe and down some wine . |
| 14 | That was the beginning of a series of small books of prayers spread over the next fifty years , which were prayed first and then made available for others who felt the same spiritual need as myself . |
| 15 | Although there is considerable value in the notion that Paisley 's political movement always consisted of two elements in tension — rural evangelicals and urban ‘ secular ’ Protestants — it is also the case that many evangelicals could be quite pragmatic and recognize that the preservation of things which they valued because of their religious beliefs required them to work in alliance with others who wanted the same things for different reasons . |
| 16 | Even during her time at Harmondsworth there were other women who had the same experiences . |
| 17 | According to Hattat , even when men can begin to discuss their virility openly , women who did the same would be branded as immoral . |