Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
2 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
3 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
4 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
5 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
6 | But when he talked he looked the same as he had always done ; eager , intent , screwing up his boneless nose , gesturing with broad , stubby-fingered hands . |
7 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |
8 | They all thought she saw the same in the mirror as they saw every day . |
9 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
10 | And just as surely she knew he wanted the same thing . |
11 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
12 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
13 | When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive . |
14 | I just said they had the same molecular formula |
15 | She felt sad and hoped he felt the same . |
16 | They said it meant the latter ; they said they were ‘ prepared to see the ratio between profits and incomes preserved at a reasonable level by a tax which would become operative upon all industry when a certain figure was exceeded by profits as a whole ’ . |
17 | He said he had the same ability as Wino but pointed out that he ( Gray ) was injured at 16 and never fully recovered , so his potential would have been even greater than it turned out . |
18 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |