Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may well have been the case that at this time , only a few months into the venture , the women were being paid much the same wage as boy apprentices at the same stage , and this would therefore explain why the delegate meeting decided merely to try to apply the same rule as , in theory at least , limited apprentices " numbers . |
| 2 | The village rector asked the mourners to try to show the same love that brought them to the service … |
| 3 | Since transmission is largely on a foal-to-foal basis it is good policy to avoid using the same paddocks for nursing mares and their foals in successive years . |
| 4 | I know that the organisations that help the homeless would be more than willing to co-operate with the Minister to help to identify the many places throughout the country where posters would be of greatest benefit to the homeless . |
| 5 | Unless the two men kidnapped yesterday are speedily released , it will be difficult for Michel Dufour , the chief ICRC delegate in Lebanon , to avoid taking the same decision once again . |
| 6 | Erm , why 's that like that , they do n't tell you how to correct it , so often , you know , you do n't , you do n't know how to avoid making the same mistake next time . |
| 7 | There was no guarantee that districts gaining funds would continue to wish to buy the same quantity of complex and expensive treatments that the unit specialised in . |
| 8 | This exemplary logic completed , it was another few breathless minutes before she found the necessary strength to contemplate walking the few feet to join Roman 's laughing , relaxed presence at the breakfast-table . |
| 9 | Past mistakes are , of course , bygone , but for the sake of the next generation , we can ill afford to continue making the same mistakes over again . |
| 10 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 11 | Throughout Cecil was followed by a bobble-hatted man , who seemed to have forgotten the former party chairman was not standing in the election . |
| 12 | He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales . |
| 13 | He seems to have occupied the same position with regard to other royal servants in Wales , men like John Donne , Hugh Huntley and John Milewater , who were associated with the duke on a commission of 6 January 1470 to enquire into rebellion in south Wales . |
| 14 | Most of your clothes seem to have suffered the same fate as the rest of your belongings , Fran . |
| 15 | The house next door , similar in style , did not seem to have suffered the same mutilation . |
| 16 | She very rarely puts a foot wrong — and she is not likely to have made the same mistake twice . |
| 17 | Can any conductor , though , be said to have made the same impact on recent musical history as that made by Bach or Beethoven or Wagner in the past ? |
| 18 | Young academics and critics do not seem to have had the same difficulty , or if they do , are not letting on . |
| 19 | So there would be no way in which different regions in the early universe could have come to have had the same temperature as each other , unless for some unexplained reason they happened to start out with the same temperature . |
| 20 | Erm even tapestries like the Devonshire hunting tapestry which you may have seen at the V and A. Er the tops look as if they 're been eaten by mice because they 're been so often snagged onto tenterhooks and moved and moved round and onto other tenterhooks , they just do n't seem to have had the same view of this kind of thing as we do . |
| 21 | The February and October revolutions seem to have had the same effect on the Russian colonists as the expulsion of the British had on the American colonists in the eighteenth century — a removal of all restraint on the ambitions to despoil native lands and assets . |
| 22 | It does not seem to have had the same connotations as the contemporary concept of adolescence . |
| 23 | In response an estimated 6,000 nationalists were reported to have demonstrated the same evening in Tirgu Mures , demanding that Hungarians not be granted separate education in their own language or minority rights . |
| 24 | ‘ Look at the amount of playing and training the top rugby players do , ’ points out Barclay , who reckons that Scotland 's cricketers are now going to have to put the same amount of time and effort into their game to get to the top level . |
| 25 | The other monks all claimed to have shared the same experience . |
| 26 | The new theorists seem to have gone the same way because of ideological conservatism , or fatalism about what is possible . |
| 27 | It is not possible here to attempt to unravel the many strands of thought and practice that have historically influenced the contemporary curriculum in this way , but it may be useful to refer briefly to some of them before going on to consider the current pattern . |
| 28 | Both factories were tested in the six TNT principles and were found to have achieved the most improvements in a six month period . |
| 29 | Lower turnover in some key areas means that London and New York may be in danger of replicating their efforts , not to say chasing the same properties , which the present arrangement should avoid . |
| 30 | I expect to continue to make the same kind of pictures . ’ |