Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb mod] [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My sister and I may share the same birthday , but we do n't share the same man , though if we did it would be none of your business . ’
2 But even if Flaubert had described himself as a lethargic meliorist , I should make the same point : what a curious vanity it is of the present to expect the past to suck up to it .
3 And I guess my mother thought I might go the same way .
4 I might ask the same thing of you … ’
5 ‘ Any bastard starts shooting at me , I 'll do the same back at him . ’
6 I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies .
7 I could do the same thing with rich people I suppose , I could paint yuppies .
8 I could feel the same horror burning through Tom and Terry — the impotence , the rage , the fear and shame at doing nothing for our friend .
9 ‘ If I could have the same result again , I would be delighted , ’ said Yorath after naming his squad for the November 18 game .
10 I could say the same thing to you about a photograph of Svend ! ’
11 I could ask the same thing of you , ’ she countered crisply .
12 I quickly found one who agreed to supply me with a dozen apples for threepence as long as I could guarantee the same order every day for the next month .
13 If I could produce the same effect on other people as Louis Armstrong does with that song , then I 'd be really happy .
14 ‘ I never thought I 'd get the same satisfaction from coaching as from playing , but I have because of the players and the group that has evolved and the atmosphere .
15 I think there 's a few times I was gon na pack in cos I used to do the same amount of work as everyone else and I got paid
16 But in a stage of my life I used to do the same thing a lot .
17 Having said that , even in my old Cub I used to suffer the same fate on occasion .
18 Yes I well remember er I use when I was staying down at Trimley there was erm a lady there who worked in the Billeting Department , who ca who herself was evacuated from London and er , I used to catch the same bus with her but she never would speak to me , erm and erm one morning er she lived down at Curton and one morning they had some erm er German planes over Curton and they were doing some machine gunning and that sort of thing and erm and we met at the bus stop and she was full of it and erm that sort of broke the ice it was
19 If I had the opportunity , which I have not had , to go round the rest of Scotland , perhaps I would form the same view of the rest .
20 Even if I try getting out of bed on the other side tomorrow morning , I am sure I would feel the same way .
21 I would feel the same sense of pride and commitment as the other guys if I was to run out at Murrayfield with a Scottish shirt on .
22 So and I would extend the same argument to abortion and I would say erm wh what happens in abortion admittedly erm an artificial abortion mean means that presumably a spontaneous abortion has has n't happened , but a modern woman is using extra means that she has er at her disposal , probably to deal with extra problems which evolution originally could not foresee and ultimately her self-interest might be just as well served by having er induced the abortion ultimately as it would by erm by not having but I mean this is just my personal view , and I do n't
23 I would find the same difficulty in putting down words for a dragonfly above a summer pond or a new spider 's web hung with dew on a spring hedgerow .
24 I would like the same amount of performance as from the petrol engine therefore I do not really want a Land Rover Diesel .
25 No , I do not think that I shall make the same mistake again .
26 I suppose that I shall say the same thing to my family when the time comes .
27 But I have to restrict myself , otherwise I will face the same problem I had with the books — the lack of somewhere to lodge all these wonderful toys .
28 What this means is : if I have a particular type of relationship with someone , I will enjoy the same relationship ( more or less ) with his or her sibling ( brother or sister ) .
29 I can feel the same sort of thing going on in my head .
30 With all the hype that Giggs gets I can imagine the same back then … sooner or later its taken for granted and believed .
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