Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [adv] the same " in BNC.

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1 The German artillery did just the same thing , as the following account from the British side shows :
2 He assured the Manager that all was well and that his certificate would be posted without delay , so the public service commenced later the same day , thus the whole South Metropolitan system was opened in 1906 , making 13.36 route miles .
3 Dear old Joe seemed just the same , but as I got better , he began to remember I was a gentleman , and call me sir again , and when I got up one morning , I discovered he had gone .
4 McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings .
5 The area of mixed and broadleaved woodland remained roughly the same , but much suffers from a lack of appropriate management and over-grazing .
6 Socio-economic problems remained largely the same in 1905–14 and 1922 in Kursk guberniia ( though not of course in the Lower Volga area on account of the Famine ) .
7 The beautiful house looked just the same , white and gleaming in the sunlight , and Jenna looked away quickly , knowing that she wanted to stay here with Alain and not go back to her empty life , her sterile plans for the future .
8 During the nineteenth century the absolute number of indigenous Siberians remained approximately the same as at the end of the eighteenth century , but their proportion in the total population of some five million fell to about 14 per cent .
9 Only consider able pressure during the energy and economic crises and the subsequent desire for energy self-sufficiency and economic recovery achieved any relaxation in the aim : the primary goal of a clean atmosphere remained largely the same but the stringent deadlines for achieving this were sacrificed .
10 Other clubs did much the same things for provincial leaders ; it was to the Constitutional Club that Salvidge went when in London and it was there that he stayed .
11 The damage to the integrity of the US banking system caused by the feckless management of the savings and loans system — which before US financial deregulation did much the same job as our own building societies — has been so extensive that its impact often goes unstated .
12 Woodcock noticed that all the young men looked rather the same , ‘ like corrupt cherubs ’ .
13 The number of working-class children also rose , but the relative proportions remained approximately the same .
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