Example sentences of "both [verb] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alain pulled her head to his shoulder and they both gazed at the portrait . |
| 2 | The shirt-maker gave up her job , and they both lived on the pattern-maker 's relatively high pay . |
| 3 | According to foreign correspondents in Beijing , China 's " elder statesman " leader Deng Xiaoping , and the disgraced former party leader Zhao Ziyang , were both absent from the platform . |
| 4 | The woman 's sister made an appointment for both to go to a birth control clinic , but in the end neither attended . |
| 5 | Hellman recalls that they were both toying with the idea of a western and talked to Corman about the finance . |
| 6 | ‘ The trendiest dude in all Hong Kong ! ’ drawled Tony , and they both tumbled into the living-room in each other 's arms , laughing like mad at their old joke . |
| 7 | who did not appear below , and Ross Taylor ( both assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals ) for the appellant Christou . |
| 8 | Two misunderstandings at least were caused by the initial use of ‘ passive resistance ’ to describe the principle f non-violent action , and both arose from the way in which the phrase was associated with the actions of the suffragettes. the first misunderstanding was that non-violent action was regarded as a weapon of the weak . |
| 9 | ‘ This produced a pretty farcical scene really with us both stopped on the track , but I managed to get away and hang on for second . |
| 10 | Both communicate via a docking station , slim docking module , a mobile communications adaptor , ‘ the same size as a fag packet ’ , and a range of modems . |
| 11 | As they ran out of the house into the sunshine they both skidded to a halt . |
| 12 | Both concentrate on the politics of local government , but both also stress how any explanation of local politics must look outside the formal political processes which operate around local political parties and the Council Chamber . |
| 13 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 14 | ( b ) The DEC PDP-11 ( Bell , Cady , McFarland , Delagi , O'Laughlin , Noonan , and Wulf 1970 ; DEC 1972b ) and Data General Nova ( Data General 1971 ; Townsend 1975 , Chapter 8 ) , more recent 16-bit mini-computers , both appearing in the period 1970–1 . |
| 15 | However , while ‘ care package ’ and ‘ care planning ’ both appear in the glossary to this document , ‘ care programme ’ is conspicuous by its absence . |
| 16 | Women who stay and work through their partner 's betrayal may , says Penny Mansfield , regain trust in time if they both grow from the experience and become different people . |
| 17 | Both fit within a view of society in which men are heads of families . |
| 18 | Once when we were both contributing to The Year 's Work in English Studies ( he on Renaissance drama ) , I met him in the library and expressed anxiety about the deadline . |
| 19 | Their aircraft , Z3036 and Z2904 , both crashed into the sea ; Kennett got out and was seen by Sqn.Ldr . |
| 20 | Lining is a must except for sheers — and interlining recommended for insulating — both keeping in the heat and keeping out any cold air — cutting down noise and dirt absorption . |
| 21 | They 're both looking through the window , are n't ya ? |
| 22 | For a moment they were both looking at the gold band on Emilia 's wedding-finger . |
| 23 | Suddenly realising that she no longer had their attention , and that they were both listening to a woman 's voice loudly exclaiming from outside , she lamely tailed off . |
| 24 | Both act as a barrier against the elements in winter , but are rather unsuitable choices for summer . |
| 25 | Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling . |
| 26 | Police say the raider 's van and the antique dealer 's car were both seen at a service station near Manchester last night , so the crime could have been planned . |
| 27 | The Doctor bought some roast chestnuts and both nibbled at the snack . |
| 28 | The two heavies spin round to see four lethal-looking blacks gliding swiftly from the limousine , and they both freeze for a second like cowboys ready to draw . |
| 29 | More important for the present discussion , however , was the spatial variability in both support for the strike over the full period and the rate of the drift back to work . |
| 30 | This may have been an open-ended shop with timber uprights based on the blocks , so providing both support for the gable end and a frame into which wooden shutters could be fitted when the shop was closed ( see Catterick , p. 114 ) . |