Example sentences of "same [noun] [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 For his improvising and melody line resources Joe draws from much the same scales we saw him use for his harmony .
16 With three gearboxes making the same noise it seems to me a design fault , but is there a cure ?
17 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 .
18 Were we talking about the same sister I wondered .
19 Since motorways fit this same description they would seem to be the perfect location .
20 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 . ’
21 In defence of that same honesty I think he could be shrewd enough , and ruthless enough , too .
22 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 ) .
23 In the same Parliament he urged the consideration of precedents for the king 's blocking of the petition on religion .
24 I was n't aware that in nineteen eighty and nineteen eighty seven , the government had the same policies it does now .
25 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 ) .
26 ‘ That 's the same shit they used on you — the Doctor analysed some of it he scraped off the stones you 'd been handling . ’
27 Same same contract they 're signing same contract .
28 After about half a minute , tap the person on your left who has now received the power and he then leads through the same activities you did , plus some new ones such as touching toes , jumping in the air , hopping and so on .
29 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 .
30 ‘ Not the same kind you have , ’ said Joe .
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