Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the same [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 2 | You 'd adopted the same philosophy of pricing that . |
| 3 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 4 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 5 | He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information . |
| 6 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 7 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 8 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 9 | Heather Mallender started asking the same sort of questions you 're asking — and look what happened to her . |
| 10 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 11 | Then three-quarters of Rokeya 's olive-shaded face appeared bearing the same expression of suffering as it had all the years Lee had known her , relieved only by the same amethyst earrings and necklace of variegated amethyst chunks . |
| 12 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Each Holy Roman Emperor , the supreme example of an elected monarch , had to accept the same kind of limitations when he was chosen by the imperial electors . |
| 15 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 16 | Nearly all of us had had the same sort of education and shared a common social background . |
| 17 | According to reliable sources , but unknown to Jack , at least three other signalmen had experienced the same chain of events , but all had kept their frightening experiences to themselves to avoid the ridicule of their workmates . |
| 18 | Then they needed the special consolation or encouragement of the substitute family at Howard ; the camaraderie of the other single girls , or the understanding of families who had shared the same kind of sadness . |
| 19 | ‘ If the rest of the hierarchy had maintained the same level of charity and civilised control as Dr Runcie , Gareth Bennett might well be alive today . ’ |
| 20 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 21 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |