Example sentences of "[prep] the same [noun] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 2 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 3 | If rest and relaxation are approached with the same openness and with the same willingness to learn as the changing of negative emotional states and our health , they can be used to heal us and to strengthen our health and emerging state of mind . |
| 4 | What he produced was a gen-u-ine statement of skin ; a document to be placed alongside other such documents , delivered with the same How's-your-father flourish as a graffiti slogan on a council estate wall or a boot planted through an Asian 's shop window or a gallon of petrol poured through the letterbox of a Bengali family 's home . |
| 5 | Since many building materials are only 4in ( 10cm ) can be built of chap concrete blocks , but these should be tied into the decorative front layer with the same walling ties as are used in the cavity walls of houses . |
| 6 | A fair employer will already have given thought to the alternatives to redundancy , perhaps even contacting other companies within the same group to see whether vacancies exist elsewhere . |
| 7 | It also makes sense to ask around among other people in the same field to see if you can pick up any extra information about the firm . |
| 8 | Regroup your substitution items into groups each with the same tone patters , and try each group again in the same frame to see if the items do in fact have the same tone pattern ( see right-hand column ) . |
| 9 | That a taxonomist from Mars , armed with a DNA hybridisation machine , would classify men , chimpanzees , and gorillas in the same family comes as no surprise . |
| 10 | Resentful at being used as manual labourers , blacks then discovered that they were not entitled to the same pay increases as white troops because , as the War Office ruled , they were ‘ natives ’ . |
| 11 | First , it was reformulated in theories of political development and modernization which were , however , more restricted in their scope in several ways ; by confining the notion of development largely to the ‘ developing countries ’ , and at the same time taking as their model of a ‘ modern ’ developed society the existing Western industrial countries , as if these countries had reached the limit of their historical development . |
| 12 | In response to the announcement Chamlong called off his hunger strike , at the same time resigning as leader of the Palang Dharma . |
| 13 | As required by tradition , Spitaels at the same time resigned as PS president at national level , a post which he had held since 1981 . |
| 14 | Then someone called out , in that half-loud , half-soft way of someone who wants to make themselves heard while at the same time remaining as quiet as possible . |
| 15 | Tie bands hold curtains away from a window or door , allowing the fabric to fall in an attractive drape , while at the same time letting as much light as possible into a room . |