Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the placement , a ward sister signed my assessment form and then asked me to do the same . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( 24 ) He put a hand under her elbow and helped her stumble the few steps she had to take . |
| 4 | She was using condoms and advised me to do the same . |
| 5 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 6 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It allowed us to do the same , if we wished , with our churches . ’ |
| 9 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 10 | I despaired when I heard Sir Geoffrey Howe , who was Foreign Secretary at the time , speak at the Tory Party Conference in October and heard him repeat the same old stock phrase : Britain will never make a deal over its hostages in Lebanon . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He beckoned her to do the same . |
| 13 | The EC decided she had the same right to benefits as a man or a single woman . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I thought you wanted the same approach . |
| 16 | They all thought she saw the same in the mirror as they saw every day . |
| 17 | Jack froze , not knowing what he should do , and when he looked at Steve beside him , he knew he felt the same . |
| 18 | And just as surely she knew he wanted the same thing . |
| 19 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 20 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 21 | When they arrived at Ken 's bedside , Jack thought he looked the same as ever , but Mrs Lomax was both optimistic and decisive . |
| 22 | Why did I choose the same piece , The Education of Children ? |
| 23 | Did you do the same on this record ? |
| 24 | And never again did she make the same mistake . |
| 25 | Culley and Jackson did n't know one another , did they know the same thing . |
| 26 | Did they get the same services ? |
| 27 | He was exact in his choice ; not only did they have the same slender shape and were equal in height , but they were malleable too . |
| 28 | It was apparent to Miss Wharton , on that first day , that he had never been inside a church before , but neither then nor on any subsequent visit did he evince the least curiosity about its purpose . |
| 29 | If Monet always ‘ made something new ’ , why did he repeat the same effects or subjects so many times ? |
| 30 | ‘ And did he use the same formula in his intimate relationships ? ’ |