Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , he decided to side with Detroit on the day , so that he might be as comfortably partisan as usual , but he did so among a group of Pittsburgh supporters , whom he referred to throughout the same as Pitts-buggers , which did nothing to improve inter-City relations . |
| 2 | This is just the same for systems like the Polynesian one , discussed by Engels , where large numbers of people can referred to by the same term as one 's father . |
| 3 | But I think I would have become more comfortable with myself anyway — it 's just the times catching up with me , my success , and feeling better about myself all came at about the same time . ’ |
| 4 | It may be a coincidence that this affair , the consecration of the church at Assandun , and the introduction of monks at Bury all happened at about the same time . |
| 5 | My secretary , Angela Foley , and Clifford Bradley , the Higher Scientific Officer in the biology department , arrived at about the same time . " |
| 6 | The Pereires , however , did not know modern commercial banking , which developed at about the same time across the channel in England . |
| 7 | It so happens that the descendants of the original Indians whose raft capsized were also in charge of another raft that capsized at about the same point in the river . |
| 8 | To our surprise and to many people 's relief , they all broke at about the same load , the strength of the wet and the dry ones being very much the same . |
| 9 | They always passed at about the same time , right after midnight , and it was something he liked to watch , the way other people watch sunsets or the ocean . |
| 10 | Another group of plants adopting a similar strategy to the cycads arose at about the same time . |
| 11 | Only late in his life did he undertake an analysis of the economic basis of imperialism , and even then he brought together a number of particular observations rather than formulating a specific alternative to the Marxist theory , such as Schumpeter produced at about the same time . |