Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [vb base] [vb pp] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 And this is more than can be said for the majority of other books which have exploited the same theme : that of man battling away , amid ignorance and fear , against some novel , lethal , unknown microorganism .
2 In some places the path we followed was marked out by deep scratches in the rocks , made by the claws of countless rockhopper penguins who have followed the same traditional route for centuries .
3 Because the novel relies on prior literary knowledge , each individual reading will necessarily be the idiosyncratic result of an interaction between the proper names given and the reader 's capacity to ‘ round out ’ these names by furnishing them with personalities and circumstantial details ( which may vary considerably even between readers who have read the same texts ) .
4 I know of several other parents who have made the same decision .
5 For twenty years I have known the same man and yet still I do not know him .
6 While no one objects to him chasing the girls a bit ( the roads are safe enough and drivers know him and avoid him ) , he stays away for days on end and is obviously getting into scraps with other dogs — presumably male rivals who 've beaten the same path to the bitches ' doors !
7 ‘ I suppose there are other girls who have had the same experience as me , and that my talking about it in this book might help them feel less isolated .
8 I have been teaching machine knitting for some time and often come across pupils who have experienced the same problem .
9 The most helpful sources of support are more likely to be the parents of other children who have experienced the same trauma .
10 If you want a mixture of species and colours , grow individual bulbs separately in plant pots and then plant up an arrangement using bulbs which have reached the same stage of development and look to be just about to flower .
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