Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the same [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week . |
| 2 | I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s . |
| 3 | It was misty , and there was not a soul in sight , and I had the same eerie feeling which came over me sometimes in other parts of the village . |
| 4 | Although I recognized the same black fire in his eyes , the farm boy had become a gentleman . |
| 5 | You found the same collegial spirit , with its masonic taciturnity and instinctive discretion , the same camaraderie and grit , the same alcohol reliance . |
| 6 | She found the same curvilinear decoration in several other pieces , and delighted him by picking them out without hesitation from the precise and formal Roman artifacts round them . |
| 7 | Unknown to them , she had been one of Tiller 's favourite leading ladies around 1906 , but when the work offers stopped she faced the same bleak future confronting all dancers who feel too old to dance . |
| 8 | She wore the same red berries . |
| 9 | In the meantime , she wore the same old rags week after week , lived in poverty and was ‘ faithful ’ to her ex-lover . |
| 10 | But she died the same merciless death at the remote nature reserve on the Indian Ocean , 220 miles north of Durban — repeatedly stabbed and hacked to pieces . |
| 11 | She had long brown hair and she too was fairly heavily built ; she had the same childlike face , which on her was pretty . |
| 12 | She had the same tall grace and was equally good looking in a gentler way with great soulful eyes . |
| 13 | She had the same kindly look as Aunt Sarah . |
| 14 | She had the same smouldering eyes and pouting lips , the same tiny waist and big swelling breasts . |
| 15 | In temperament , though not in looks , she reminded Athelstan of Benedicta ; she had the same quiet composure and he had glimpsed the steely look in her eyes . |
| 16 | The little kind were very much like pygmy chimps , — she stumbled over the word pygmy , then quickly added , ‘ You know , Pan paniscus , ’ and she flashed the same toothy grin of triumph that pronouncing ‘ magician ’ had evoked . |
| 17 | We used the same old path , and I was amazed to realise that without knowing it I had been hurrying my children along and constantly looking over my shoulder . |
| 18 | We saw the same unbelieving stares on the faces of the Americans who watched the ‘ Challenger ’ failure . |
| 19 | All the pictures he showed me looked the same messy blur but he insisted he could make out the individual features of each person . |
| 20 | There is a tacit acceptance that , because men are generally more successful in material terms than women , women could become more successful if they made the same educational choices as men . |
| 21 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 22 | Kirsten proved a fine role model for the impressionable Rhodes throughout the tour , and while on the surface the pair could n't be more contrasting in appearance or temperament , there is no doubting that they shared the same total commitment to their game and country . |
| 23 | They shared the same social defect — seasonal unemployment — and the same natural hazards — extreme variability in yield between bad and normal years . |
| 24 | They found the same general correlation between socio-economic variables and level of expenditure as in primary education . |
| 25 | The Fisher Row community had few surnames and they used the same Christian names over and over again . |
| 26 | But it was difficult to believe this because there was always enough to eat , and they wore the same nice clothes . |
| 27 | On the far side they followed the river about a mile downstream until they reached the same narrow point where the temporary bridge is constructed every year . |
| 28 | The Mitry peasants ( like the proverbial cat ) could look at a king , and they spoke the same legal language of customary rights and fairness as Charles and his faithful men used in their capitularies . |
| 29 | I just said they had the same molecular formula |
| 30 | They had the same right wing , racist hard-nut minds . |