Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] [prep] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Later when he wanted to release him he had only to go through the same motion but this time having his hand covered with a substance that would neutralize the smell .
2 Relationships grow stressful when managers and subordinates bump elbows , so to speak within the same frame of reference .
3 It was ironic to realise she 'd once come close to despising her mother for that frailty , when she was battling hard now not to fall into the same trap herself .
4 So , if I lose a stone , I need to eat 200–300 fewer calories a day for the rest of my life , just to keep at the same weight .
5 ‘ Well , I try not to stay with the same methods .
6 I had decided not to stay in the same hotel as any of the groups of owners , actors , racegoers or crew , and asked Nell if she knew of anywhere else .
7 So furious was she , in fact , that she felt it wiser not to stay in the same room with him .
8 The talks , aimed at tackling practical regional matters such as water-sharing , economic development and the environment , brought together the broadest gathering of Arab states ever to sit at the same table with Israel .
9 You pedal harder to stay in the same place . ’
10 Yeah but they were all fixed up to go into the same envelope sort of thing .
11 And then there 's just your vest now to go in the same drawer as your jumper .
12 The women go out to work in the same way as other women , but know that their main priority in life is to care for their families .
13 With a mortgage , you have to run very fast to stay in the same place — like the Red queen .
14 Permanent inhabitants include many kinds of protozoa ( single-celled animals ) and a great many multi-celled animals , many of which undergo a daily vertical migration , from deeper to surface waters , effectively to stay within the same level of illumination as the light varies .
15 Claudia felt as if she were running hard to remain in the same place .
16 The key issue is not how to reduce the observer 's role to zero ( or even to an absolute minimum ) but simply how to render it at least as explicit , as clear , and as quantitatively specifiable as any other aspect of the system under study , so that other observers will know how to look at the same phenomena from the same perspective , should they care to do so . ’
17 I apprehended him when he was about to re-enter through the same window . ’
18 I will not go on to examine by the same criteria the other manifestations of The Thing , such as the anti-apartheid demonstrations , in which open breach of the law was widely condoned and encouraged by the organs of public opinion .
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