Example sentences of "both [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Alexandra learnt to live with it , and her unfailing courtesy and thoughtfulness brought her closer to the elderly Queen , in spite of whatever misgivings they both shared about the erring Prince . |
2 | TV replays showed that Saunders went in with his foot raised and came down on Elliott 's leg as they both steamed into a full-blooded 50-50 clash . |
3 | Teesside Crown Court heard how Crook , 19 , and Davies , 21 , who both lived at the nine storey tower block , made a complete mess of the home improvements they were trying to do . |
4 | Carlton Palmer and David Hirst both came through the 1-1 Goodison Park draw after recovering from knocks . |
5 | From the start of his authority to investigate subversives , in 1939 , the pattern was set : his first raids caught an unlovely bunch of anti-Semites , whose inspiration and weapons both came from a paid FBI informant . |
6 | The two men , who both came from a small village in Lithuania , almost hero-worshipped the handsome Italian with his love of liquor and of women . |
7 | The penalty seemed harsh as Jones went down in a collision with John Lukic as they both raced for a 50-50 ball . |
8 | This was true even before the current wave of feminism ( Virginia Woolf in 1929 and Simone de Beauvoir in 1949 both marvelled at the huge volume of material on the subject ) ; contemporary feminism has just made the political implications easier to see . |
9 | They both settled for an early night . |
10 | President Assad visited Mubarak in Alexandria on Aug. 28 , after which both called for an unconditional Iraqi withdrawal and a " restoration of legitimacy " in Kuwait . |
11 | Joe handed the foaming mugs over the bar , and they both collapsed into the little wooden dining chairs set each side of the dying open fire . |
12 | They both worked for the same of accountants . |
13 | During the war they both worked in the local Heathcoat factory making parts for aeroplanes — he was Chairman ; she was on the factory floor — then in 1946 they began to plant the garden in earnest . |
14 | She shot him a surprised look as they both waved at the moving minibus . |
15 | Jimmy was at his side now , and they both looked through the glazed front of the doors . |
16 | My father and mother both died in the Royal Hampshire Country Hospital ; my second grandchild was born there ; my daughter had her appendix removed there and my wife had an MOT there . |
17 | If there was a black kid and a white kid with equal qualifications who both went for the same job , I would have to put my money on the white kid getting the job , because we 're in a white-dominated society . |
18 | They both listened to the gentle burble of the exhaust for another minute , then Bert cut the engine . |
19 | There is no doubt they deserved the points after pushing title favourites Galleywood and Stock — who both won for the third time this season on Saturday — so close in their last two matches . |
20 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |