Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 2 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 3 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 4 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 5 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 6 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 7 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 8 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 9 | ( 1 ) Waqar Younis shared exactly the same ball with England prospect Martin Bicknell only last year when they played for Surrey . |
| 10 | I experienced exactly the same difficulty with my Panasonic printer when , like William , I upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word 2 . |
| 11 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 12 | They fulfilled rather the same role as extern sisters in contemplative convents today . |
| 13 | In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked . |
| 14 | The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms . |
| 15 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 16 | The second day 's play followed much the same pattern of the first , the difference being Humphreys Davies ' three set victory over Lisa Albano . |
| 17 | I came into the G M B and heard exactly the same kind of derogatory comments about the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 18 | Well , what observed exactly the same thing with , with baboons , and said to himself , why are these animals doing this ? |
| 19 | Italy , France and Spain also honoured him with medals and ribbons , but in England , his native homeland , he never achieved quite the same degree of recognition . |
| 20 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 21 | Rico d'Agostino started up the same kind of place in what used to be Hogan 's Bar only a few blocks away . |
| 22 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 23 | Pat herself felt much the same way about that after Ken 's death . |
| 24 | I felt much the same way about Posh Porky as Grandpa did about Mrs Salmon . |
| 25 | AN ELDERLY woman found semi-conscious on the floor of her Essex home died later the same day of hypothermia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 26 | The occasions that stand out in the three decades of our post-imperial era are : Duncan Sandys ' 1957 decision to recommend the end of National Service , which almost halved the Army ; the Kennedy/Macmillan Polaris agreement at Nassau in 1962 that led to the RAF losing responsibility to the Royal Navy for the British nuclear deterrent ; Denis Healey 's scrapping of the TSR2 in 1965 , which threatened to ‘ unhorse ’ the RAF 's knights ; his cancellation of the aircraft-carrier replacement programme in 1966 , which did much the same thing to the Royal Navy ; and John Nott 's attempt in 1981 to maintain the strength of the Rhine Army and RAF Germany at the expense of our maritime capability . |
| 27 | Jazzbeaux heard they did much the same thing in Jap corp boardrooms . |
| 28 | ‘ Because it did exactly the same thing to me . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |
| 30 | All four groups remembered roughly the same number of words , so MPD sufferers do not merely have better memories . |