Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the [det] [noun] as " in BNC.

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1 Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did .
2 No , the other end , yep I got the same chimney as you
3 I got the same punishment as people who are three times over the limit .
4 For swatch 4 , I used the same yarn as for swatch 3 , but only every third row , and with card 4 locked on row one .
5 We passed by the Grotto together on the way and I felt the same wonder as before .
6 I understood because I felt the same fear as they did .
7 Yeah it made me feel better actually because I had the same impression as you .
8 Although she was by now in her late thirties , she recognised the same symptoms as in her previous pregnancy .
9 Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse .
10 Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses .
11 She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her .
12 Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean
13 Reading a letter from Miss Joan Rix in the EADT last week , I find that she had the same thoughts as myself .
14 She had the same manner as George , a sad kind of demeanour that on a woman was attractive while on a man like George it was annoying .
15 You had the same problem as Malcolm , so , would it be fair to sign that or would it be more sensible to leave it blank ?
16 I 've been through hell , Rachel , believing you had the same problem as me , and I was the man you wanted to go to bed with but could n't stand personally . ’
17 The result had been as fresh-faced and direct as Hogarth 's Shrimp Girl and when the Queen was persuaded to choose Moynihan as the portraitist of Princess Elizabeth , she wanted the same quality as that found in Private Clarke .
18 We used the same criteria as the Booker Prize — namely the writer must be from either the UK , Ireland or the Commonwealth .
19 When Ann and I first visited this area , we followed the same route as luckless Montrose , travelling south from Caithness , over the Ord to the Kyle of Sutherland , past Lairg , then up Strath Oykle .
20 At Canjuers we followed the same routine as at Orange .
21 And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well
22 If they thought the same way as Joe Punter , they 'd be Joe Punter , and somebody else would be having all the fun . ’
23 I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny .
24 As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ .
25 It met the same fate as its predecessors .
26 He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front .
27 He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ .
28 In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law .
29 He received the same message as Sir Ralph .
30 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
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