Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [noun sg] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I babysit for them about once a fortnight while Graham stays at home with our own children , and she or her husband do the same for us , ’ explains Sally . |
| 2 | Therefore , by the time you are seven , although your birthdate remains the same , you must actually be celebrating your birthday one week later in the year . |
| 3 | Wilson-Kastner finds her ‘ high ’ Christology and her feminism to embody the same ideals . |
| 4 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 5 | How soon would it be until her prince felt the same way ? |
| 6 | The majority of buckets found in early Anglo-Saxon graves are of stave construction , bound with bronze and whose construction requires the same control over materials as a cooper . |
| 7 | He waved frantically , and his sister did the same . |
| 8 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 9 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 10 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 11 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 12 | So if your resistance stays the same and we keep increasing the voltage at some stage you say ooh it feels tingly |
| 13 | ‘ And your boyfriend feels the same way , presumably ? ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Looks like your lover-boy has the same idea . ’ |
| 15 | yes alright well let's leave that one and let's see and I stand corrected , but my point remains the same if er , erm , er my duty under article five is not to find to the anti competition laws is it ? |
| 16 | But their attitude remains the same — ‘ Well we treat them all the same whether they are Asian or English ’ . |
| 17 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 18 | If you change your beliefs but your life stays the same and you feel the same , then you have n't really changed those beliefs , or perhaps more deeply rooted beliefs are blocking you . |
| 19 | ‘ Because your robot tells the same story . |
| 20 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 21 | Whether his descendant has the same staying power remains to be seen . |