Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 2 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 3 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 4 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |
| 5 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 6 | You chose to play the same game . |
| 7 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 8 | I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one . |
| 9 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 10 | After er , purchasing we continued to produce the same materials erm , mainly er , directed towards the saddlery trade . |
| 11 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 12 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 13 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 14 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 15 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 16 | The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians . |
| 17 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 18 | Some of them were politer than others , but they tended to ask the same questions as they trampled through the house . |
| 19 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 20 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 21 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 22 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 23 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 24 | His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey . |