Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [verb] in the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously . |
| 2 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 3 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 4 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 5 | But Stripey rarely chose to sleep in the same place two nights running . |
| 6 | An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way . |
| 7 | If he categorically refused to work in the same Laboratory as Lorrimer , one of them would have to go . |
| 8 | I never thought to find in the same establishment a Gooseneck , a Ramsbum and a Blitherdick . ’ |