Example sentences of "both [verb] [prep] the [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 | Hellman recalls that they were both toying with the idea of a western and talked to Corman about the finance . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | who did not appear below , and Ross Taylor ( both assigned by the Registrar of Criminal Appeals ) for the appellant Christou . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They both knelt on the carpet and peered at the large magazine , turning the pages . |
| 11 | ( 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 . |
| 12 | However , while ‘ care package ’ and ‘ care planning ’ both appear in the glossary to this document , ‘ care programme ’ is conspicuous by its absence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Their aircraft , Z3036 and Z2904 , both crashed into the sea ; Kennett got out and was seen by Sqn.Ldr . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They 're both looking through the window , are n't ya ? |
| 18 | For a moment they were both looking at the gold band on Emilia 's wedding-finger . |
| 19 | Both worry about the fishing villages whose livelihood has been commercial whaling . |
| 20 | The Doctor bought some roast chestnuts and both nibbled at the snack . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Both depend on the partition of the components of the mixture between a stationary phase and a mobile phase . |
| 24 | He led her into the room and , looking at the four musicians , he said , ‘ This is Peggy , my sparring partner ever since we both crawled on the lawn together . |
| 25 | We both adjourn to the sauna . |
| 26 | And name ; and name ; both benefit to the tune of £5,000 or more . |
| 27 | What I would like to just er point out to the panel in terms of the earlier discussion the Senior Inspector was having about the sites around Greater York is that virtually without exception , well the two exceptions being the two hospital sites , I think all the other sites are actually our planning commitments so erm your comment about erm the longevity of the the greenbelt as it were , that virtually all those sites are actually committed in in one form or another , the only two sites which are not er committed really are the Naburn and Clifton hospital sites which are both inset within the greenbelt , well one is inset and one is subject to the normal P P G two er requirements for redevelopment of hospitals . |
| 28 | Realizing they were both going through the roof with nerves , Luke put down his notes and tipped his battered Panama over his snub nose . |
| 29 | Unless you want us both soaked to the skin . ’ |
| 30 | Ann Kite 's Open Learning Video Courses Nos 4 and 5 , ‘ Programming the Knitmaster and Silver electronics ’ , both look at the function of the N1 cam . |