Example sentences of "[indef pn] [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | to remember that teenagers normally go through the phase of being attracted to someone of the same sex . |
| 2 | In the absence of an analysis of heterosexism , heterosexuals can ( and do ) reduce our gayness or lesbianism to just living with someone of the same sex , thus enabling them to remove the possibility of challenge from our relationships with them . |
| 3 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 4 | Around 1.7 million of these were looking after someone in the same household ; 1.4 million were providing help or supervision for at least twenty hours a week ; and 3.7 million were carrying the main responsibility for providing that help ( Green , 1988 ) . |
| 5 | Again in the 45–60 age group , noticeably higher proportions of unmarried women were caring for someone in the same household , were the main carers of their disabled relatives and friends , and were caring for over twenty hours a week than were either their married or male counterparts ( Green , 1988 , pp. 9–10 ) . |
| 6 | Fritzy , bleerk with Ministry , breaks his hand hitting someone in the same brawl . |
| 7 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |
| 8 | I move away as I would prefer to talk with someone from the same planet . |
| 9 | This has subsequently been changed , but suggests the view the SFA might take ; it would be logical for it to do so , since a market counterparty of this type is supposed to be someone on the same level as the firm . |
| 10 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 11 | If you 're on a sailing or windsurf holiday you may still book without a supplement if you 're willing to share with someone on the same holiday . |
| 12 | The experience made me deeply grateful that nothing of the same kind , at least with current technology , can be deduced from prose . |
| 13 | Sales , however , have been disappointing , and there 's been nothing like the same kind of interest the earlier books had . |
| 14 | Australia , Canada , the Republic of Ireland , and the United States have nothing like the same concentration of unqualified power at the centre of government as this country has . |
| 15 | Allan Lamb took over the captaincy and did his best , but it soon became clear that without Gooch they were nothing like the same team . |
| 16 | They were becoming very tired , and when they came back from their missions there was none of the former exuberance if everyone returned safely , and just fatalistic shoulder-shrugging if someone was lost . |
| 17 | None of the same calibre , I mean . |
| 18 | It is true that all advanced industrial societies have witnessed this shift but none to the same extent as this country . |
| 19 | Nothing could daunt me and I talked to everyone with the same message : ‘ Cancer was absolutely great because it put you in touch with yourself and the world . ’ |
| 20 | Barbara Coleman was saying something about the former beauty of the garden and its decline , but wondering aloud whether it was fair to say decline because what was happening was that the garden was returning to nature , and further wondering whether it was really and truly nature because some of the plants were not native to the region and did not entirely belong there , and then wondering whether that was not a strange remark to come from one who had made Provence her home for so long that she felt quite a part of the landscape . |
| 21 | On one occasion my mother , Lady Ermengilde , found him muttering to himself , something about the same number Vechey mentioned — thirty-one . |
| 22 | You see , there 's Venus which is about the same size , Mercury 's a small one , Saturn is huge , Uranus , Neptune they 're big ones and Pluto 's another one about the same size as earth . |
| 23 | He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within . |
| 24 | For a time he showed a certain curiosity about Liszt and something of the same kind about Wagner . |
| 25 | I never got good enough ( or brave enough ) to test her advice out , but , being by inclination an optimist , I would like to think that something of the same logic would apply to the National Curriculum and its tests . |
| 26 | An impressive university department might be staffed with the established academics who have lately confessed , in print , to basic doubts about the validity and purpose of English literary studies ; and it is hard today to think of any branch of formal literary study that does not reflect something of the same malaise . |
| 27 | I felt something of the same awe and excitement I had experienced four years before when tramping round and round Warwick Gardens with Chesterton , debating the execution of Charles I. Here was someone who ought to have been a member of the Society that G. K. C. had dominated at St. Paul 's from 1891 to 1893 . |
| 28 | Something of the same librarian 's desire for accuracy seems to have afflicted Gainsborough 's later nods in the direction of costume melodrama . |
| 29 | There 's something of the same blankness of effect , too , in Ismail Saray 's white sheet hung against red , the white perforated with large burnt holes . |
| 30 | " Taking a spouse for granted " — in which , perhaps , something of the same reason exists — was listed by 7 per cent in respect of women and 21 per cent in respect of men ; how many men , once their wife 's attentions are taken up by child-rearing , leave them to get on with it and follow their own devices ? |