Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] the [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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1 | It has become a familiar complaint of managers this season , dissatisfied that the ‘ brave new world ’ of the Premier League merely offers them the same problems as the old . |
2 | It was of course my mother , and she asked me the same questions as my neighbour . |
3 | Now that should give me the same answer as if I do ten take away five so it 's take away a plus five , Yeah ? |
4 | You still add a mark if you put then , would you give us the same mark as before ? |
5 | John asked me to help him the following year as I often came to Stamford to see my mother . |
6 | He handed her the folded documents as he prised open the first box . |
7 | For them , the solution to the problem of pro-government bias is simple : the broadcasters should treat government and governing party as one and the same , and give it the same coverage as the main opposition party . |
8 | Now we could n't do it anyway next year , we 'll have to do it the following year as we 've heard earlier . |
9 | With such ancient remains , the first need is to accord them the same protection as other ancient monuments . |
10 | However he looked after his animals with great care , brushing and combing them every evening , giving them the same food as he had himself , and chopping wood to make a fire so that they should be warm at night . |
11 | Just wan na call them the same things as you 're used to . |
12 | So , Himmler was giving him the same powers as he had given Max Radl for Operation Eagle . |
13 | he wants to see you doing it the other way as well |
14 | Although Daniel 's dark skin offers him the same protection as a mild sunscreen , it 's not enough to block all the sun 's harmful UV rays . |
15 | A great looker , and he may have shown his admiration because she had ducked her dark head in mock embarrassment and given him the slowest smile as she had moved away . |
16 | The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes . |
17 | Anyway he says he 'd pay him the same money as what he 's on there , 'cos he 'd have to really , would n't just say , say |
18 | Asked what has caused him the greatest difficulties as Prime Minister , Harold Macmillan is said to have replied : ‘ Events , my dear , events . ’ |
19 | The other end of the pole was attached to a treadle , which exploited the natural springiness of the pole , tightening the rope to turn the wood one way , then relying on the spring in the pole to turn it the other way as the rope was released . |
20 | This birth was so quick and easy , Wilson could not think it the same process as Oreste 's . |
21 | I have asked a couple of guys at the college you know and one fellow said the tray , oh he said , you can buy this tray from a builders , oh he said you can make a , a cover and I said oh god , make it the same colour as the mat and the er |
22 | That gave me the same charge as I remembered when I was a little kid and could memorise every record I had , who the publishing company was , how long the song was and what label it was on . |
23 | It was sweet revenge for Flintshire , who lost out in the corresponding fixture last season , and it gave them the perfect start as they bid to recapture the North Wales county crown . |
24 | So if God gave them the same gift as he gave us , who believed in the Lord Jesus Christ , who was I to think that I could oppose God ? ’ ' |
25 | I tried to ring her the other day as going to a seminar at my solicitors office nearby and had hoped to walk up plus dog , leave Bella for duration of seminar and pick her up again = kill exercise bird with seminar stone as it were . |
26 | After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer . |
27 | Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor . |
28 | The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’ |
29 | But they do it the other way as well . |
30 | Furthermore — and this probably gives us the best clue as to the intrinsic nature of schizophrenia — there is fluctuation in mental state over a much shorter time-scale . |