Example sentences of "[been] [verb] by the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His return had been delayed by the same blizzard that had almost prevented Judith leaving Manhattan , and put him beyond the deadline Klein had set . |
| 2 | I believe the Gold Award has never been won by the same publication two years running , so after our success last year I thought BNFL news would be out of the frame . |
| 3 | Within a radius of ten miles of West Challow there are at least half a dozen houses that look so similar to this that they must surely have been built by the same hand . |
| 4 | They do not , like other fines , go into the public purse but into the pocket of victims who have already been compensated by the same jury for damage to their reputation . |
| 5 | They could have been made by the same craftsman . |
| 6 | Two building societies and a bank have been robbed by the same man in less than three hours . |
| 7 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 8 | A prized garden which has been tended by the same family for sixty years has been wrecked by an out-of-control car . |
| 9 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 10 | Borrowing from overseas has been affected by the same set of factors . |
| 11 | We should be careful not to look only at our friends and colleagues whose style may have been affected by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 12 | We must constantly compare the copy with the reality shown to us by experienced paddlers and not simply look hard at a wide selection of paddlers and not simply look at our own friends and colleagues who may have been influenced by the same paddle strokes that we are studying ourselves . |
| 13 | The Bavaria brand bottles and Royal Dutch Post Horn Lagers , which are both sold mostly in corner shop off-licences , have been hit by the same problem affecting Heineken Export Lager . |
| 14 | Two other garages have been hit by the same man in just 6 days and a police helicopter is on standby to track him next time he strikes . |
| 15 | He also conceded that Unisys has been hit by the same technology shift with which IBM is having to come to terms . |
| 16 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |
| 17 | A pub which has been run by the same family for more than a century has won an award for its traditional charm . |
| 18 | This group of regna had seldom been ruled by the same person before 840 ; and after 840 , continuing or permanent union was not foreseen . |
| 19 | Strictly speaking , the Dual Monarchy of Austria-Hungary was a new state , yet most of its components were ancient and had long been ruled by the same family . |
| 20 | This means that your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Building Housing Cost Index ( prepared by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors ) in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 21 | Your sum insured has been increased by the same percentage as the rise in the Durable Household Goods Section of the Government 's General Index of Retail Prices in the twelve months before your renewal date . |
| 22 | Ferguson thought the Scottish striker might be forced to withdraw from the trip to Berne because he feared he had been afflicted by the same illness which has hit more than a dozen of the Old Trafford squad . |
| 23 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 24 | In all patients a quadruple loop ( W ) pouch had been constructed by the same surgeon ( WHFT ) according to standard techniques . |
| 25 | For 120 years the Bulls Head has been kept by the same family … this is landlord David Gane outside the pub around 1920 . |
| 26 | The bullets had followed each other too quickly from different angles for them to have been fired by the same person . |