Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was very much as she had expected to be , having found in her marriage nothing to surprise her nor to cause her the least distress . |
| 2 | We had a fast and uneventful run to Stornoway where the new propeller was fitted but , to my horror , in the haste to re-launch us the same prop . |
| 3 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ Or worse still , if he was going to have her killed , it would be a nice tidy thing to give me the same treatment , and Joel too . |
| 5 | Sometimes he grunted at me as if trying to get me to say something , but always I had to give him the same classroom answer : ‘ Ich verstehe nicht . ’ |
| 6 | it is generally best to quote the nearest authority first and to allot it the most space , the other cases can be brought more casually into the discussion , as you have time . |
| 7 | Unfortunately he 's reactionary enough not to accord me the same freedom ! ’ |
| 8 | With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments . |
| 9 | I try to keep it the same time . |
| 10 | ‘ No , you 'd do that for about three or four days and then he 'd decide to ask you the same question again just to see if you did look it up . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I was about to ask you the same question . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I had thought to ask you the same thing . |
| 15 | He continued to urge Canterbury 's supremacy over York , and in the general settlement of 1107 , Archbishop Gerard promised at last to show him the same obedience as archbishop as he had owed as bishop of Hereford . |
| 16 | Austen Chamberlain had been trained to be a conventional statesman ; Rugby , Cambridge and a determination to live down his father 's reputation had all combined to make him the most conformist of politicians . |