Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books . |
| 2 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 3 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 4 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 5 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 6 | SHITO-RYU Hot on the heels of Funakoshi from Okinawa came Kenwa Mabuni , who had studied under the same master , but who also had two other teachers , named Itosu and Higaonna . |
| 7 | Marriage between a blood son and an adopted daughter who had nursed at the same breast would be incestuous , haram — forbidden . |
| 8 | The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing . |
| 9 | We 'd started at the same time . |
| 10 | Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 . |
| 11 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 12 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 13 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 14 | Ben had been nine when he 'd gone to the same school , he reminded her . |
| 15 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 16 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 17 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 18 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 19 | Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began . |
| 20 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 21 | He had travelled aboard the same flight from Helsinki but in Economy Class , not an experience the Vice President of Information and Planning had enjoyed . |
| 22 | He had hit on the same theme in Jubilate Agno , B404 : |
| 23 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
| 24 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 25 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 26 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 27 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 28 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 29 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |