Example sentences of "[pron] was [v-ing] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was thinking the same thing , ’ David said calmly . |
| 2 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 3 | But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then . |
| 4 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 5 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 6 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 7 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 8 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 9 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 10 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 11 | At every level the lines of communication were with the central authority , not with the official who was doing the same job in the adjacent district . |
| 12 | The Israelis were furious at the attack on their colonel who was doing the same job as British soldiers in Ulster , they said . |
| 13 | She had already had one of her hips replaced and the other one was going the same way . |
| 14 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 15 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 16 | Once more , he was telling the same jokes before a show went on the air or was finally taped . |
| 17 | He glanced at Ho , and knew that he was thinking the same thing . |
| 18 | She was silent a moment , thoughtful , and knew he was thinking the same thing . |
| 19 | No doubt he was thinking the same thing . |
| 20 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 21 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |
| 22 | As soon as I realised I told him it must stop , but the next thing I knew he was spouting the same fiction to a reporter . ’ |
| 23 | Now he was saying the same thing . |
| 24 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 25 | He was carrying the same grip . |
| 26 | They should have had more definite targets , because it was a bit , everyone , at one point everyone was doing the same thing , , through the words which |