Example sentences of "[noun prp] [be] [v-ing] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Success Sunderland are adopting the same formation that brought Ipswich success in the 70s , and the results have been encouraging enough to persuade the 37-year-old boss to call off his search for a midfield playmaker . |
| 2 | They fought like wounded lions in the next game ; 20 ; 30 years on Swindon are showing the same spirit . |
| 3 | Increasingly Hick is having the same problem at county level as bowlers realise a potential flaw . |
| 4 | Borland is attacking the same problem with its WINDOS concept , under which the Windows and DOS versions of Quattro Pro are sold together in one box . |
| 5 | The Yorkshire is taking the same approach but also provides booster discounts that will cut the cost of a mortgage by 2.55 per cent for first-time buyers , but only for six months . |
| 6 | Half a century later the top-hatted , side-whiskered Stingy Uncle in Punch was giving the same advice . |
| 7 | ‘ The idiotic thing about the delay of Brel 's order is that BR is paying the same money to keep clapped out 30 year-old trains running that it would cost to lease the new rolling stock . ’ |
| 8 | Now that Mr Kinnock is achieving the same effect , ought this not to attract the modest admiration of an opponent whose vision of British politics has , in any case , always seen Republicans and Democrats — capitalist parties both — as the model which a well-ordered , post-Thatcherite country should emulate ? |
| 9 | He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience . |
| 10 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 11 | She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre . |
| 12 | The other son 's converted to Mohammed and they say George is going the same way . |
| 13 | By staying away from Crathie Church , Diana is showing the same decency , dignity and consideration that the nation has come to expect from her . |
| 14 | Shakespeare is making the same point as Donne — ‘ Love 's not so pure , and abstract , as they use/To say , which have no mistress but their muse ’ — as he has done obliquely in Venus and Adonis with the picture of the horse exuding desire ( 259–324 ) . |
| 15 | William Hulbert offered Burghley 100 angels if he would get the post of customer at Bristol transferred to J. Dowlie , who had probably bought it from Hulbert ; Henry Goldingham promised £100 for the post of controller of the customs at Ipswich ; and Herbert Croft wrote that Richard Davis was offering the same amount for a judgeship in Wales . |
| 16 | Cora-Beth was thinking the same thing as she watched Harry partner one of her former school friends on the dance floor . |
| 17 | Baden is undergoing the same transformation that is revitalising southern France . |