Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] in the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June 1989 another Soviet submarine caught fire in the same area , and this time Norwegian scientists reported evidence of a small radioactive leak . |
| 2 | Two proposed changes to the Constitution , both affecting the role of Parliament , caused controversy in the latter part of 1989 and the beginning of 1990 . |
| 3 | It was she who , commenting on the Sharon Tate murder in August 1969 , said ‘ Dig it , first they killed those pigs , then they ate dinner in the same room with them , then they even shoved a fork into a victim 's stomach ! |
| 4 | She affected Luke in the same way as he did her . |
| 5 | Customers of the rival Lambeth Water Company , which took its water from the upriver source of Thames Ditton and which served houses in the same London streets , suffered only a sixth of their risk . |
| 6 | For example , in schools where all the teachers followed guidelines in the same way , the impact was positive . |
| 7 | All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead . |
| 8 | I have yet to come across another dog who began life in the same way Sadie did which has now successfully integrated into society . |
| 9 | He equated a lone tree with a lonely person , and paired trees in the same way that he paired humans . |
| 10 | Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked . |
| 11 | Icarus team leader David Lewis took part in the same jump . |
| 12 | It does not take into account wrecked aircraft in the many Pacific Islands and the many more known to be in shallow waters — these must await salvage and/or more confirmable status . |
| 13 | An extreme instance is provided by Godden and Baddeley ( 1975 , 1980 ) , who found that the ability of divers to recall a list of words learned either under water or on the beach was much better when the test took place in the same conditions as had prevailed during original learning . |
| 14 | It only became connected with the miracle because both events took place in the same village . |
| 15 | Furthermore it was suggested to her mother that Kim 's activity and feeding the baby always took place in the same room so that her mother could provide verbal prompts and on-going comments . |
| 16 | The conferences always took place in the same room ( the Salle des Fêtes in the Elysée ) and followed a very formal procedure . |
| 17 | The court heard how another customer saw curtains in the same Allied branch at £59.99 on March 8 this year . |
| 18 | Their mothers , who gave birth in the same delivery room , were in separate wards . |
| 19 | Later still , living in Canada , travelling in the United States and working with Americans , I came to understand that not everyone lived history in the same way ; that for many Americans , history was only a bunch of dead stories . |
| 20 | ‘ Down , Snappy ! ’ said Eleanor in the same dead tone she had used when Melissa first arrived . |
| 21 | Linda McCallum , who works at Milestone House , the Edinburgh AIDS hospice , said people in the latter stages of the disease could be described as hopelessly ill . |
| 22 | All of the other large cities had trends in the same direction , albeit on a less dramatic scale . |
| 23 | He thought that if you could orient molecules in yarn or film — just as Wallace Carothers did when he invented nylon in the same company in the 1930s — why could n't you apply the same technique to plastic bottles to make them stronger ? |
| 24 | Satisfaction with local authority services was high : 93 per cent described water services as being ‘ very good ’ or ‘ quite good ’ and 80 per cent held education in the same high regard . |