Example sentences of "[pron] were [v-ing] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 2 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 3 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 4 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 5 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 6 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 7 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 8 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 9 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 10 | When Maggie and Susan left the house they were carrying the same pail and enamel container that they 'd used earlier . |