Example sentences of "both [verb] to the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
2 | She made a very positive effort to be the right kind of person to be around — in other words , she was not a liability , she was an asset , an extremely good cook and a very good organiser , and having discovered that we both went to the same school in Switzerland where French was the main language taught , we would enjoy talking to each other in French , much to the annoyance of David who could n't understand the language . ’ |
3 | ‘ It turned out we both went to the same school , ’ Vlitos says , ‘ so things got very friendly . ’ |
4 | You may discover early on in an interaction through words that you share common ground ( that you both went to the same school , for instance ) . |
5 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
6 | The statistics may have low confidence levels , and the assumptions for deduction may be ill founded ; but if they both lead to the same classification , then a learner can trust it . |