Example sentences of "same [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | After about eight issues he picked up a copy and noticed that Bowart-using the same technique he had used to appoint Miles London correspondent — had appointed him , and William Randolph Hearst as editors . |
2 | If others took the same decision it would spare the North selectors some uncomfortable choices . |
3 | But then , as if in that same instant he had solved the puzzle , he spoke . |
4 | It had happened at the rampart by Dr Dunstaple 's house where Cutter had just shot a sepoy the moment before and seen him fall ; at the same instant he had caught sight of another sepoy levelling his musket and had said to the Sikh beside him : " See that man aiming at me , take him down . " |
5 | At the same instant he glimpsed a flutter of movement in one of the downstairs rooms . |
6 | In that same instant he saw the menace he faced . |
7 | In the same instant he was yelling a warning . |
8 | But almost in the same instant she rejected that idea . |
9 | But then in the next fraction of the same instant I realized that if I thought I had ceased to exist then I existed that the very thinking of this thought was me . |
10 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
11 | ‘ We need to evaluate screening with the same rigour we use to examine a new drug ’ |
12 | No , it 's got to be an alert , and if we all keep to the same story we might just get away with it . |
13 | The same story you told me the last time we met , ’ she said with a sneer . |
14 | One legend taught that if a man and a woman caught the same wave they would be joined in physical union . |
15 | With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ? |
16 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
17 | Were we talking about the same sister I wondered . |
18 | Since motorways fit this same description they would seem to be the perfect location . |
19 | It is left to Minerva to give a more balanced view ; reporting on a large trial of the same drug she notes ‘ men hoping for a drug treatment for benign prostatic hypertrophy will have to wait a while longer … small improvements in a urinary flow rate and a small reduction in the size of the gland have to be balanced against negative effect on both libido and potency . ’ |
20 | In defence of that same honesty I think he could be shrewd enough , and ruthless enough , too . |
21 | Having edited the file , you are returned to LIFESPAN in the same field you were in prior to the edit operation and you can continue ( assuming the file scans without errors ) . |
22 | In the same Parliament he urged the consideration of precedents for the king 's blocking of the petition on religion . |
23 | The difference between ( 77 ) and ( 78 ) is not the same difficulty we met earlier , in the ambiguity of : ( 79 ) The cat is behind the car where behind can have either a deictic usage ( i.e. the car intervenes between the cat and the speaker 's location ) , or a non-deictic usage ( i.e. the cat is at the intrinsic rear-end of the car ) . |
24 | ‘ That 's the same shit they used on you — the Doctor analysed some of it he scraped off the stones you 'd been handling . ’ |
25 | Same same contract they 're signing same contract . |
26 | In 110 we find straightforward confession : Yet in the same sentence we find specious self-excuses : ‘ but , by all above ’ , — this unusual oath , calling the heavens to witness , is an anticipatory give-away — Well , the disbelieving reader will say , to claim that you betrayed your partner merely to test your love for him , which has supposedly been increased by the experiment — this is to add insult to injury . |
27 | ‘ Not the same kind you have , ’ said Joe . |
28 | And now our small party showed the same intimacy I had witnessed in all the random groupings I had seen with a recent experience of Machu Picchu behind them . |
29 | It was the same look she 'd directed at the men all through lunch and they 'd loved it . |
30 | It was that same look she had caught a glimpse of earlier . |