Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 2 | His family has been farming the same land for generations but this year he has sown no cereal crops and has not even bothered to string the hops in the hop gardens . |
| 3 | ‘ We have customers who have been using the same set for more than 20 years , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 5 | Whilst they are very good at what they do , they 've also been riding the same horse for a very long time and the old nag 's starting to show signs of wear . |
| 6 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 7 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 8 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ But what is happening is shared internal experiences that become easy to share with somebody who has been undergoing the same kind of experience , then you can find out a lot more of what you 've undergone because people will find different ways of describing it , different metaphors . ’ |
| 10 | CCEM , which was also created to maintain and operate the government 's communication networks , has also been providing the same services to private customers . |
| 11 | These subjects may therefore have been having the same sorts of experience as " dreamers " , but did not label their REM sleep experiences as " dreams " , but " thinking " . |
| 12 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 13 | The young , the young officer who came to me he said of course we 're so glad you got the number , you 're quite right it 's a car that 's been doing the same thing in Wokingham . |
| 14 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 15 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 16 | [ See Fig. 2 ] Stromboli has been showing the same kind of activity more or less continuously for centuries , and is often called the ‘ lighthouse of the Mediterranean ’ . |
| 17 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 18 | Here , the 212-mile Southern Uplands Way which has been following the same route since Caldons Wood , heads further eastwards . |
| 19 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |