Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls . |
| 2 | I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself . |
| 3 | you probably got them from the same place . |
| 4 | First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child . |
| 5 | He withdrew all charges against them and immediately re-charged them with the same ones . |
| 6 | James Boswell , for example , often used them for the former , even occasionally , apparently , for the latter ; but never it seems with his wife . |
| 7 | But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October . |
| 8 | I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time . |
| 9 | When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake . |
| 10 | But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four . |
| 11 | One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put . |
| 12 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |
| 13 | The women I spoke to who had been through the whole procedure told me of the many exhausting visits they had had to make to the British Embassies and High Commissions , of the atmosphere of contempt at these places , of the pettiness of the Entry Clearance Officers ( ECOs ) and interpreters , and the rude and unreasonable questions they had had to answer . |
| 14 | I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris . |
| 15 | ‘ You will not be coming back , ’ he assured her in the same arrogant tone . |
| 16 | ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language . |
| 17 | They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time . |
| 18 | Kohl described the military regime of former president Gen. Augusto Pinochet Ugarte as a " dictatorship " and compared it to the former East German regime headed by Erich Honecker ( whose request for political asylum in Chile had recently been rejected ) . |
| 19 | His writing , prose and poetry demanded rigorous attention , and received it with the same daily routine that he had established earlier : three pages a day , writing and rewriting , creative and self-critical . |
| 20 | I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so . |
| 22 | He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively . |
| 23 | A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover . |
| 24 | He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age . |
| 25 | She wanted to say no , to go on treating him and everything that surrounded him with the same nonchalant air she 'd managed thus far . |
| 26 | If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you |
| 27 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 28 | both , really I think they both hit you at the same time |
| 29 | BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’ |
| 30 | The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin . |