Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move .
2 As in the Merchant Service , a close friendship usually developed between the Commanding Officer and the Chief Engineer , and on the cutters the Commander usually tried to sail with the same chief whenever possible .
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 Self and Citrine frequently had to sit through the same item of business as it made its way through three , or in extreme cases five , formal meetings of different bodies before being finally approved .
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 . ’
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