Example sentences of "both [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we both agreed the little mite was the spitting image of the man . |
| 2 | Both shared the common assumption that Spain was itself decadent and ‘ behind ’ Europe : the radicals were pessimists and wholesale Europeanizers like the later Progressive Liberals , while the Caroline bureaucrats were moderate patriots who resented the airs of superiority which the French philosophes adopted towards Spain . |
| 3 | Both men 's views in the inter-war period were highly subjective and embittered ; both lacked the necessary detachment and sense of objective hindsight to bring the experience into proper perspective . |
| 4 | Punsalmaagiyn Ochirbat and Gombojavyn Ochirbat ( the MPRP chairman ) both visited the Soviet Union on May 13-15 . |
| 5 | Both provided the same amount of calories . |
| 6 | And Steffi Graf earned £130,000 MORE than fellow countryman Boris Becker , although they both played the same number of official tournaments — 15 . |
| 7 | Both joined the Labour party . |
| 8 | George and Sidney Fawcett were both well over six feet in height , both joined the regular army before war broke out , and both were guardsmen . |
| 9 | Although in the past the courts and the House of Commons both claimed the exclusive right to determine whether or not a privilege existed , it is now apparently accepted that it is for the courts to decide whether a privilege exists and for the House to decide whether such privilege has been infringed : see Erskine May on Parliamentary Practice , 21st ed. ( 1989 ) , pp. 147–160 . |
| 10 | He rushed to tell Mum and they both heard the pattering noise . |
| 11 | ‘ We both served the Great Criminal . ’ |
| 12 | The south coast of Crete can boast only three proven ports : Koufonisis , on a small island off the south-east corner of Crete , and Kommos and Agia Triadha , which both served the prosperous Plain of Mesara . |
| 13 | That puts me in mind of Montesquieu ’ — ; the French philosopher and belle-lettrist whose Persian Letters may have formed the inspiration for Goldsmith 's Citizen of the World : both employed the satirical device of having their society scrutinised by visitors from a far-off land . |
| 14 | Deana Davenport said slyly , jabbing Belinda Jones with a sharp elbow as they both watched the retreating form of a certain endocrine specialist . |
| 15 | Both wore the standard dress . |
| 16 | Roy Colvin and lady captain , Joan Gough , both attended the end-of-term prize-giving at which young Coulter , an A-level student at Wallace High , paid special tribute to Alan McMaster , juvenile convenor , and that livewire duo of Watson-MacDonald incorporated . |
| 17 | But I never dared to think we should discover that we both felt the same way . |
| 18 | But none of these made any difference to the basic shape of these key results : on the first repetition , t was not important but both and k were — and in the direction predicted by the theory ; on the second repetition , t was important ( and with the right sign ) , as were σ and k — but they both had the wrong sign ( the opposite of that predicted by the theory ) . |
| 19 | ‘ We both had the same instinct . |
| 20 | And then by one of those quirky coincidences that make life interesting both women spoke at once , and both said the same thing . |
| 21 | Characterization of these cDNAs demonstrated that both encoded the same protein sequence but the shorter RACE product was the result of oligo-dT primer annealing to a short A rich sequence within the 3' untranslated region that does not have an identifiable polyadenylation signal associated with it ( data not shown ) . |