Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Here , ’ she says thickly , handing me a joint while she rolls the ice cube round in her mouth and tries to breathe through it at the same time . |
2 | Zach told her his age , which was nine , and spelt out his name , apologizing for it at the same time . |
3 | I was put to work with him on the same bench and he not only taught me toolmaking , he also taught me about the trade union movement and the kind of society he wanted to see . ’ |
4 | Paul had reasons for the private emptying of his ; he was still treating himself with a solution of the doctor 's recommended potassium permanganate crystals , and had to make his exit quickly when Willie was out of the room , as that gregarious gentleman would have come with him on the same errand ; then hurry outside with the tell-tale purple contents , empty them , rinse the pot at the pump , and come back . |
5 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
6 | These ledgers can be easily subdivided , enabling several clerks to work on them at the same time and it is also easier to withdraw old accounts and insert new ones in their place . |
7 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
8 | She stared at the book-filled wall above the desk , then turned back , seeing how he was looking past her at the same spot . |
9 | ‘ I do n't know how you can even speak of her in the same breath . ’ |
10 | So far , we have argued that people in modern Britain give great importance to their immediate family , that is their husband or wife and children living with them in the same house . |
11 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
12 | Leon Kennedy slumped in his chair , laughing , and it came to him with the same elegance as movement . |
13 | you might be able to do it off that , you wo n't be able to listen to it at the same time |
14 | you 're not looking at it in the same way at all . |
15 | But I think there 's also the other end of the scale which is , which is what , you 've slightly amended this year , is the fact of elderly people erm , I know recently that myself have gone through the fact of my gran had er , was going through a very sick period , and if she 'd have come back home , it would have been very difficult for me to have had to look after her at the same time as trying to attend my council duties , and this would have been the same for my dad , and the additional income which this would have brought , to have paid someone to be able to look after her whilst we were at council meetings , and you can remember that these meetings sometimes go on , you can say well , this meeting should be over by one o'clock then it goes on till three o'clock or whatever , and then peop , the problems mount up for that person left on their own , and I think that those things have to be taken into consideration , and I believe that this is the first step forward in trying to recognise that people have responsibilities outside of the council chamber . |
16 | Look on it in the same way as the treads on your bike or car tyres . |
17 | Exactly the same thing happened to me at the same stage when I was pregnant . ’ |
18 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
19 | Surely a man of the cloth would n't look at her with the same sort of craving as James Halden . |
20 | So I mean I suppose they 'll look at it in the same kind of way , somebody who 's got managerial , management qualities rather than I suppose people who are interested in the other side of it , the medical side of it , probably , really be geared up to organizing the money side of it would n't they , usually one or the other . |
21 | We are used to looking at faces , the faces of people , for their emotions and feelings ; and when we wonder about the emotions of animals we tend to look at them in the same limited way . |
22 | Bound with it in the same volume are the first 7 Supplements ; this volume is now out of print . |
23 | We suggest that , while bicycles may be recognizable by reference to the fact that they are damaged ( as in ( 59 ) ) , we can not easily describe bicycles as belonging to us in the same respect ; nor can we refer to ideas as belonging to you inasmuch as they are " discussed " . |
24 | He knows that he is only looking at ink on paper , yet his nervous system responds to it in the same kind of way as it might respond to a real woman . |
25 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
26 | Together these two essays are an attempt to construct the theoretical basis for an alternative to positivistic scholarships , an alternative that will deal with the specifically literary properties of texts , and deal with them with the same degree of objectivity and rigour as scholarship has traditionally claimed . |
27 | A year later to the day he had proposed to her at the same table . |
28 | She said that because he was a volunteer she felt she could not call on him in the same way as with a paid worker . |
29 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
30 | For she would carry on with her chores and talk to them at the same time . |