Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Sir Colin has to spread the same degree of charm throughout BA 's expanding empire . |
| 2 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 3 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 4 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 5 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 6 | His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years . |
| 7 | Given the fundamental importance of demography for any assessment of a pre-industrial economy , it is not surprising that economic historians have pressed the surveys into service ( historians of medieval England have done the same sort of thing with Domesday Book ) as sources of demographic data . |
| 8 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 9 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 10 | Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled . |
| 11 | He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) . |
| 12 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 13 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 14 | Kate and Diane have booked the same venue with its easy access just minutes off the M5 motorway and superb views across the Somerset countryside . |
| 15 | His friend David Lodge has explored the same theme in farcical vein in Changing Places ( 1975 ) , Small World ( 1984 ) and Nice Work ( 1988 ) , where farce is sophisticated by literary allusion and softened by the hint that humane values , however easily forgotten in the contest of fashion and the struggle for careers , may yet be of intrinsic worth . |
| 16 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 17 | As soon as he 'd switched the light off , Zeno had taken the same route through the yard as Sophie had done a little earlier . |
| 18 | I spent hours at one of those ‘ so many ’ stone circles near Garrynahine trying to get the same angle as JTR to no avail . |
| 19 | If Neil Kinnock had won the same level of support from manual workers and their families as Harold Wilson achieved in the 1960s , he would be in Downing Street today . |
| 20 | But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline . |
| 21 | At that time it was still believed that Mercury did keep the same face to the Sun , and therefore this temperature was used to support the idea that Mercury had an atmosphere , because such an atmosphere would transport heat around from the Sun-facing side , thus raising the night-side temperature . |
| 22 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 23 | The LFS has asked the same question about temporary working only since I 9836 and the latest survey results available are those from 1986 . |
| 24 | ( To be frank , Alistair had had the same fantasy the previous Friday , at which time , presumably , Offensive from Quasar 13 was still being booted round the floor of the sub post office ) . |
| 25 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 26 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 27 | C'zinsit had presented the same argument every time the topic was mentioned . |
| 28 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 29 | In more recent times , Luciano Berio has used the same technique in his Sinfonia , Labirintus H , and electronic works , so that we seem to be hearing different music — symphonic , jazz , military , vocal , etc. — as if radios were tuned to different stations and the music merging , conflicting , and changing . |
| 30 | Paul plans to use the same system this time . |