Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 2 | Oh I , I should think that about fifteen years ago er when erm the lighting manufacturers had decided that er there was a great deal more available in lighting than just the erm , type of glass bowls and shades that had been used , well in between the wars er , I mean after the war was over in nineteen forty six er they were still using the same things that they did before the war and this just carried on er and er it , it only within the last what I suppose fifty years that 's over |
| 3 | I entirely accept that if er , four years on we were still doing the same thing that then they 'd be er , some erm , requirement for er , cutting back but I think it is also worth reminding ourselves that due to the action of this conservative government in er , forcing the local government review , er , we are facing the spectre er , of an additional full meeting of this council , and indeed we have had to er , respond to that government initiative . |
| 4 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 5 | ‘ You mean they were probably lying or coming over romantic about the past , and , what 's more , all those old poets were probably doing the same thing . |
| 6 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 7 | At school I did English and Art , and looked at theatre design in art — it was all pointing the same way , really . |
| 8 | Emily was obviously thinking the same thing . |
| 9 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 10 | Exactly , I was just thinking the same thing . |
| 11 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 12 | Half an hour later , Rosie was dreamily humming the same tune in the back of the taxi-cab that was taking her and Ernest home to Poplar ; they had slipped quietly away from the party , leaving the pub by the side door . |
| 13 | She hoped with all her heart that he was not going the same way as his stepfather ; and yet , the signs were already there . |
| 14 | ‘ She was still wearing the same clothes which she disappeared in . |
| 15 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
| 16 | Three years later he was still exercising the same power . |
| 17 | He hoped George was n't thinking the same thought . |
| 18 | He feels that as he loved her so much during this time , he ca n't believe she was n't feeling the same way . |