Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] [prep] the same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | those seeking work were looking for the same kinds of jobs as those that had found it ; |
| 2 | the 26 students seeking employment were looking in the same kinds of business areas as those who had been more successful in job search ; |
| 3 | Within a month he knew almost as much about oven temperatures , controls , rising yeast and the correct mixture of flour to water as either of the two assistants , and as they were dealing with the same customers as Charlie was on his barrow , sales on both dropped only slightly during the first quarter . |
| 4 | If the scanners were to be believed , two people were talking about the same matters in similar terms night after night . |
| 5 | I needed reassurance from many colleagues that they too were thinking along the same lines . |
| 6 | The pressure to do work against 'cos they knew that Germany were working on the same lines , did n't they , the enormous pressure to get there first . |
| 7 | In 1946 in Milan , Werner met a young woman who was looking at the same things as he was . |
| 8 | The situations envisaged by that subsection seem to me well illustrated by Bank of England v. Riley [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 840 , which was dealing with the same words in another section of the same Act . |
| 9 | Two years ago Benazir Bhutto was thinking along the same lines . |
| 10 | ‘ So obviously I was thinking along the same lines as him . |
| 11 | Even though Blanche 's first question was innocent enough , Dexter knew immediately that the superintendent was thinking along the same lines . |
| 12 | The Colonel was thinking along the same lines as me . |
| 13 | The national marketing team in London was thinking along the same lines as the Glasgow office on client care and so the decision was reached to use Glasgow as the pilot for a national client care programme |
| 14 | A twist to his lips , he added , ‘ I was thinking along the same lines myself when my father pre-empted me . ’ |