Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [to-vb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 and nineteen fifty so you would 've expected to see the same sort of increase .
2 But Father John McCullagh has managed to convey the same sentiment in a very different way .
3 They then seemed destined to suffer the same fate as Jack Handy 's firm : a sharp decline due to financial extravagance and a lack of closely controlled management .
4 Such situations as were faced by these librarians in the early part of 1986 were not new and no doubt will recur , and librarians may well feel forced to take the same course of action in future .
5 He had read that , at the exclusive Beefsteak Club in London , every steward was addressed as George , and the colonel had decided to adopt the same rule to save people from remembering unnecessary names when stewards were changed .
6 The specific protests against soil conservation policies and other related issues ( such as the taking away of land for settlers , plantations or the removal of forests ) have tended to follow the same pattern — of violent , politically primitive , and usually short-lived protest involving marches on towns or centres of perceived political power of their oppressors and occasional guerrilla warfare ( e.g. the Mau Mau movement in Kenya , although the issues involved were much wider than soil conservation ) .
7 These two men , and many between , have had to make the same type of decisions about the positions of their steel works .
8 I 've really had to work hard to get where I got to and when I fight a black guy , I know that he 's had to do the same thing , I think : ‘ Well , he 's had it as hard as me ’ and little zest goes out of your punching , I just want to beat him on points .
9 You have attempted to map the same LIFESPAN user onto more than one relational database user .
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