Example sentences of "tarred with the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1952 he was becoming all the more determined that the United States should not be tarred with the colonial brush . |
| 2 | Pound here anticipates , and paints in a blacker hue , Edmund Wilson 's recognition that Eliot is ‘ a poet of the American Puritan temperament ’ , and Pound claims to be tarred with the same brush himself . |
| 3 | I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent . |
| 4 | Not that it was young Mr Gotobed 's fault , his father was alive then , and in charge of the mine , but Mr Evans says all that family was tarred with the same brush , only thinking of profits . |
| 5 | I thought about the gin , but that was tarred with the same brush . |
| 6 | But already there were signs that the mood was changing , that to the people all uniforms were alike ; the Army was now being tarred with the same brush as the Tans , and its patrols — as his own men had recently learned — were no longer immune from IRA attacks . |
| 7 | Not that I 'm surprised ; they 're all tarred with the same brush , that family ; the boy 's no better and no worse than his mother or his uncle . |
| 8 | You 're tarred with the same brush . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't think you 're tarred with the same brush , do you ? ’ |
| 10 | You 've made it very clear that you think I 'm tarred with the same brush as William and that 's fine by me ! |
| 11 | If this happens in Oxford they 'll be tarred with the same brush . |
| 12 | Some youngsters have protested , claiming that they should not all ‘ be tarred with the same brush ’ . |