Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 2 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 3 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 4 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 5 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 6 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |
| 7 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 8 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |