Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [pron] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You plug it in when you go away and it switches on the light for you at the same time every evening , and switches it off too . |
| 2 | When the chicken leg is cooked , cook the stuffing by the side of it on the same plate , according to the instructions on the packet . |
| 3 | The article gives the possibility of legal action against individual sellers or suppliers , or groups of them from the same economic sector , or against their trade associations . |
| 4 | We were always out there looking for something new , trying to find any slight glimmer of someone with the same kind of ideas as us . |
| 5 | E.D. Simon , Chairman of Manchester Housing Committee ( 1919–23 ) and Parliamentary Secretary of the Ministry of Health ( 1931 ) was confident of being able to rebuild Britain within 20 years : ‘ If we can tackle the problems of peace with anything like the same sense of purpose , the same devotion , and the same efficiency as we have shown during the war , the Rebuilding of Britain will be child 's play ’ ( Simon , 1945 , p. 228 ) . |
| 6 | The Precision in a way is too middly , but the thing about the Jazz is that you can get more top and bottom from it at the same time , and that 's the sound I like . |
| 7 | Members in Northern Ireland are not taking advantage of the savings available on Homecover to anything like the same extent as members in the Republic of Ireland and Great Britain . |
| 8 | Scotland failing to capitalise on pressure and inflicting wounds on themselves at the same time is another common event , though , and a first-half penalty missed by Gary McAllister had a profound effect on Andy Roxburgh 's side . |
| 9 | He shepherded the twins aboard without losing either of them down the gap and found seats for them in the same row . |
| 10 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 11 | ‘ But Oliver , ’ I said , trying to make some sense of the story , and also trying to make a bit of a joke of it at the same time , ‘ Is n't it traditional to give flowers to a girl when you arrive rather than after you 've left ? ’ |
| 12 | And she walked out of the room with something of the same wary insistence on normality . |
| 13 | I do n't recall the good times I 've had at Wembley with anything like the same frequency — not just because there have n't been as many of them ( my personal Wembley record is played ten , won two , lost eight ) , but because when you support a football team , misery is the only currency that can purchase real ecstasy . |
| 14 | Though Craig and Jo have a number of sexy scenes together in Home and Away , she says the advantage of her real-life relationship with someone in the same industry is that her partner fully understands that romantic clinches with an international heart-throb are just part of the job . |
| 15 | It is theoretically possible for a cow to jump over the moon with something like the same improbability . |
| 16 | Expressed verbally , we must choose a variable with a I above it in the same column . |
| 17 | These data are insufficient to establish the variation of seismic wave speeds with depth in the Moon to anything like the same extent with which this has been possible in the Earth . |
| 18 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 19 | Lay the curtain out flat with the interlining uppermost and apply the hemmed lining to it in the same way as for Lined Curtains , but lockstitching along the same lines as the interlining and along all seams . |
| 20 | Both would involve payment to him of the same sum of money . |
| 21 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |
| 22 | Speakers of languages like Japanese , Hungarian and Spanish , which do not have weak syllables to anything like the same extent as English does , may well find such exercises of some value ( as long as they are not overdone to the point where learners feel they have to speak English as though they were reciting verse ) . |
| 23 | Women rowers ca n't take part on anything like the same scale as the men yet , but the feeling was they 're here to stay : |
| 24 | It takes imagination and a lot of practice to read a play to yourself in the same time as it would take to see it on the stage . |
| 25 | Hers was draped with dusty red velvet , and there was a worn armchair alongside her in the same material . |
| 26 | GOLFING taxi driver Derek Funcks defied odds of several millions to one by hitting a hole in one … and then hitting another hole in one on the same round . |
| 27 | She had reduced the voice to something on the same level of annoyance as a heavy breather . |
| 28 | She heard the sound of the sea , the cry of the gulls and then her own cry , as he made love to her in the same way as he had done long ago at the Angel Inn . |
| 29 | Radio and television programmes of the high inquiring calibre of ‘ Today ’ , ‘ The World at One ’ or ‘ Newsnight ’ do not exist in France to anything like the same degree . |
| 30 | He took out a large photograph and placed it on her knee , taking her cup from her with the same effortless movement . |