Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 2 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 3 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 4 | And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling . |
| 5 | It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " . |
| 6 | Project management , incorporating information management , within these programmes will ensure that they are carried out to the same high standard as our taxonomic and floristic research . |
| 7 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 8 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 9 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 10 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 11 | ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems . |
| 12 | ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him . |
| 13 | He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance . |
| 14 | Chatmeister Terry Wogan exemplifies the Seventies penchant for shirts and ties made out of the same floral tablecloth . |
| 15 | Conservative Members and their predecessors came out with the same sorry story that paying women acceptable wages equal to men 's wages would destroy jobs . |
| 16 | Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) . |
| 17 | The same applies to the Committee 's use of the term " reality " which , when placed in significant opposition to " convention " , refers back to the same selective cultural parameters . |
| 18 | Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline . |
| 19 | However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one . |
| 20 | Er children are n't brought up in the same maternal way as they are in in this country , and many other countries . |
| 21 | There is coming out with the same old thing again . |
| 22 | The majority , the huge majority , were to be shipped back in the same closed trains to the Motherland of Russia . |
| 23 | She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man . |
| 24 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 25 | ‘ Two Turkish teams have had three players sent off in the same European match . |
| 26 | Tolkien wanted his characters in The Lord of the Rings to live up to the same high standard . |
| 27 | In a similar search which fails , R1 and R2 will end up with the same final weights , but R3 is not rewarded : |
| 28 | ‘ He used to grumble about him , but it would always end up with the same old story . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The aircraft turned over the breakwater and was followed out by the same intense gunfire . |
| 30 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |