Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 2 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 3 | At Mandru , the Lady Nehushtah , Mandru 's exotic Ixibatabian wife , had male as well as female attendants , and all the Ixmaritians lived together in the same building , regardless of their gender . |
| 4 | Miguel must have rung the policía , because their car drew up at the same time as Miguel 's jeep . |
| 5 | Macho Jose lined up for the same run at Leganes yesterday — and was wounded by another horn . |
| 6 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 7 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 8 | He di , he 's , I think he 's the only person who never moved out of the same place . |
| 9 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 10 | Nothing moved there except the few blackheaded gulls wheeling and crying above the river . |
| 11 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 12 | The incidence of bridal pregnancy and bastardy rose significantly at the same time . |
| 13 | In 1921 , for example , we find the police warning against setting up a ‘ continental system of domestic espionage ’ in Britain ( p. 6 ) Even SIS , which had designs on MI5 in 1945 , shied away from the latter 's counter-subversive functions , so as not to be ‘ associated with the idea of an internal Gestapo , ( p. 177 ) No wonder governments are nervous of too much openness in this area . |
| 14 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 15 | Thereafter they practised together until the latter 's death in 1852 , and it is not always possible to distinguish the work of one from that of the other . |
| 16 | Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job . |
| 17 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 18 | Devon and Cornwall 's canals connected agricultural areas with the goods they needed which came in through the many small ports . |
| 19 | Now , obviously I 'm not going to talk about profits from the T V division just now , because Thames only came in at the half year , and we 're not including any profits from B Sky B in the half year , but it 's likely that we 'll take some de-loan stock interest in at the year end . |
| 20 | But Anna did not talk to him , because Sarah came in at the same time . |
| 21 | The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B. |
| 22 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 23 | Er , the figures in paragraph five are shown there , but we had a recognition of that additional duty , and a variety of other minor changes which I wo n't go into this morning , that came through at the same time . |
| 24 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 25 | We checked the pH by an electronic meter and came up with the same reading . |
| 26 | A very large number came up with the same idea : that Mummy or Daddy has had a sex change . |
| 27 | All came up with the same idea and they wanted to do it . |
| 28 | ‘ They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope . |
| 29 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 30 | Unfortunately for Glanvil , many ghost stories are faked ; and investigators of the psychic phenomena of two centuries later came up against the same problem . |