Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] the same [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think if you ask any housewife , if they 're honest , they 'll turn round and say they feel like a drudge half the time — everybody thinks when they get up in the morning ‘ Oh no , I 've got the same old things to do today , till I go to bed tonight . ’ |
| 2 | The age distribution of the working population for two countries , one developed and one developing , which happen to have the same sized labour force is shown in fig. 1.7 . |
| 3 | They jointly announced a collaboration with JVC ( Victor Company of Japan ) , to manufacture a commercial chip set which appears to offer the same real time facility but with much higher compression than required under JPEG . |
| 4 | And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end . |
| 5 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
| 6 | Firstly , as you perceive your old fears welling up within you , as you try to tackle the same old problem and are paralysed by the thought of failure , look at the screen of your mind . |
| 7 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 8 | Romaine ( 1978b ) has cited the case in Edinburgh of two locally born upper-middle-class speakers who had attended the same private school but spoke with quite different accents . |
| 9 | In some places the path we followed was marked out by deep scratches in the rocks , made by the claws of countless rockhopper penguins who have followed the same traditional route for centuries . |
| 10 | Against that , though , was the fact that , if he and his secretary were still away , she stood to have the same unsatisfactory conversation with the lady with a little English as before . |
| 11 | ‘ But I think the average employee in the public sector , who has a job , knows perfectly well that , in the public services nowadays , you have to accept the same sensible level of settlements that people do outside , where things are going hard . |
| 12 | A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material . |
| 13 | ‘ David gives us that little bit extra , though we wanted to play the same tight 4–4-2 formation . |
| 14 | They have adopted the same macho rhetoric which , until recently , was the sole preserve of the Tories . ’ |
| 15 | When he moved to inflict the same beautiful torture on the twin globe she cried out , drowning in a riot of sensation . |
| 16 | Shy and introverted as a schoolboy , he recalls suffering the same teenage romantic disappointments as everyone else . |
| 17 | READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did . |
| 18 | It 's it 's got the same nuclear format . |
| 19 | Kant gives several alternative formulations of the basic principle of the categorical imperative , which he believes have the same essential content but present different aspects of it to our thought . |
| 20 | There are detectives and DCIs and Chief Supers and Commanders every fucking where ; more tecs and CID guys and Anti-Terrorism Squad chaps and regional guys than you can shake a nightstick at , all asking questions , all asking the same fucking questions and me trying to give the same fucking answers ; seeing DI McDunn , sucking saliva through his teeth and letting me share.his B&Hs , is like meeting an old pal even though he 's got all his questions too . |