Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 2 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 3 | Whereas European countries tended to acquire public ownership of the assets of natural monopolies , the United States preferred to handle the same problems through public regulation of industries whose assets were left in private ownership . |
| 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 | Sukarno hoped to employ the same techniques as had broken Dutch resistance in New Guinea . |
| 7 | His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years . |
| 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 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I began to imagine that the landlord , being about to emigrate , might murder us to get our money … ’ and claims that Johnson had entertained the same fears , although Johnson never mentions such thoughts . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 20 | ( 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 23 | C'zinsit had presented the same argument every time the topic was mentioned . |
| 24 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 25 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 26 | Centuries earlier the Bhagavad Gita had noted the same difficulty : " Self-conceited , haughty , full of pride and arrogance of wealth , they do acts of religious worship in name alone . " |
| 27 | Heather Mallender started asking the same sort of questions you 're asking — and look what happened to her . |
| 28 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 29 | So if Luke had contracted the same strain it might explain why he could n't phone her — |
| 30 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |