Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] both the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I question both the justice of all governments and the principle by which my taxes can be used to pay for machines of mass destruction . |
| 2 | Greatly as I admire both the man and his work , I consider Max Beerbohm a dangerous influence — just how dangerous one must perhaps have been brought up in England to know . |
| 3 | You want both the biscuit and the bun . ’ |
| 4 | You must swing normally , with a smooth and even tempo , ensuring you complete both the backswing and make a well-balanced follow-through . |
| 5 | You might be tempted to attribute it to lowish wage rates ( at the Brasserie ? ) , but a good answer would produce figures to justify this assertion ( you know both the staffing structure and the total wage bill for 1983 , at least , so you could work out the average gross wage per annum and relate it to what you knew about catering wages for the period ) . |
| 6 | Like the others in this review , you get both the DOS and Windows versions in the same box . |
| 7 | Starting very gently , you increase both the speed and the sharpness of the turns as your confidence grows until you are flying a figure of eight course , still without letting the nose of the model point straight at you ( Fig. 5.3 ) . |
| 8 | When you write an essay you have both the opportunity and the responsibility to state your own views in your own words . |
| 9 | Even if you have both the parallel and serial leads connected between the two computers , Fastlynx is intelligent enough to test both and choose the faster and more reliable of the two . |
| 10 | perhaps a way should be found of ensuring that we experience both the ordinariness and the extraordinariness of the glass , he wrote . |
| 11 | Instead he uses his elongated sentence constructions to great effect , looping coils of verbal rope around his inquisitors until so weighed down with sub-clauses , extended definitions and qualifications they lose both the beginning and the end , leaving them like Sir Robin , spluttering and blinking crossly ; an elderly and bad-tempered owl offered a rubber mouse to play with . |
| 12 | Camcorder viewfinders are , in effect , miniature television screens , and they show both the scene as received by the camcorder lens and also the recorded picture when the machine is switched to playback . |
| 13 | Although he concedes that shareholder perks are primarily a marketing exercise , Mr Hume says they benefit both the company and shareholders . |
| 14 | Although we can not honestly say that those who unsuccessfully oppose a particular decision or policy consent to that decision or policy when it is carried out despite their opposition , we can say that they are nevertheless bound by that decision in so far as they accept both the principle of majority decisions and the fairness of the procedures through which the decision is reached or the policy made . |
| 15 | The doctors are then faced with a situation in which the patient has made no decision and , he by then being unable to decide for himself , they have both the right and the duty to treat him in accordance with what in the exercise of their clinical judgment they consider to be his best interests . |
| 16 | The reason for putting the onus of proof on the firms is that they have both the incentive to make the case , and access to the detailed information on which the case is to be based . |
| 17 | To decide if the Goblin lands where you have aimed it roll both the scatter dice and the artillery dice . |