Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] [adv] [art] same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the pension funds and insurance companies had waited they could have picked up the same properties at a far lower price . |
| 2 | Emil , who must have picked up the same signals , spoke with a true leader 's decisiveness . |
| 3 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 4 | Sir you 'll have seen the County Planning Officer 's own report on these matters and you 'll have seen exactly the same comments which I 've made contained in that report . |
| 5 | I could have found exactly the same clothes and expressions anywhere in the United Kingdom that night of course . |
| 6 | I could have quoted basically the same words from almost any Jehovah 's Witness tract , but I choose this book because a reputable publisher ( Pan Books Ltd ) saw fit to publish it , despite a very large number of errors which would quickly have been spotted if an unemployed biology graduate , or indeed undergraduate , had been asked to glance through the manuscript . |
| 7 | With the change in wording necessitated by the inclusion of ‘ disorderly , ’ this is in virtually identical terms to the provision in relation to section 4 , and would therefore seem to open up the same possibilities for argument that that section does through section 6(3) . |