Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] same [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks .
2 They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year .
3 Another point relates to the fact that , in the first case , the jury acquitted the defendants of one charge and convicted them of Both charges arose out of the same facts .
4 The round table was still in the centre of the hall , littered surely with the same newspapers and magazines , old letters and circulars ; and the old settle was still leaning against the far wall .
5 But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them .
6 We went round in the same circles for half an hour and I left feeling a mind-numbing frustration , far worse than anything induced by meetings with the Foreign Office .
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