Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [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 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 3 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 4 | His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 7 | Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled . |
| 8 | He is such fun , the intelligent person 's humorous read à la David Lodge ( Penguin has used the same cover illustrator , Paul Cox ) . |
| 9 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 16 | The LFS has asked the same question about temporary working only since I 9836 and the latest survey results available are those from 1986 . |
| 17 | ( 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 20 | C'zinsit had presented the same argument every time the topic was mentioned . |
| 21 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . " |
| 25 | Hammers reckon they were robbed … but then again Swindon have suffered the same fate this season … so it was their turn to sing and dance … |
| 26 | In a more modern and subtle way , Singer has proposed the same extension of a recognition of interest to animals so that sentient animals share a community of interests with humans . |
| 27 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 28 | So if Luke had contracted the same strain it might explain why he could n't phone her — |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Dexter had encountered the same expression many years before in his teens . |