Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the same [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Widow Mary Todd , 64 , met Bill Raisbeck six months ago when she moved into the same sheltered housing scheme at Thornaby , Cleveland . |
| 2 | Hewlett and Mrs Lowndes moved in the same influential circles . |
| 3 | And if some of these assumptions were harsh in their operation they were tempered by a humanitarianism which stemmed from the same eighteenth-century roots . |
| 4 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
| 5 | The trade unions were insisting that Britain abided by the same social protection rules as other EC countries . |
| 6 | The bed was low but wide , and made of the same pale wood . |
| 7 | So many of them were interrelated or came from the same Sardinian village that all of them , with or without a record , could usually tell him something if they would . |
| 8 | In a dream a tall thin priest informed him that the two pieces came from the same votive cylinder and had been cut in two to make earrings for a statue of the god Ninib . |
| 9 | Though the group which dominated the executive board of the National Association tended to be drawn from the secularist , radical circles of the metropolis , the women and men who effectively led the repeal movement came from the same provincial backgrounds which sustained many other mid-century reform groups . |
| 10 | Gregory came from the same aristocratic milieu as Sidonius and his followers . |
| 11 | She pinned her thoughts on Rosemary , her friend and neighbour from across the corridor , who came from the same sizeable Dorset village that she did . |
| 12 | In the course of the 1970s various ‘ summary ’ analyses of large numbers of ‘ effectiveness ’ studies — Lipton , Martinson and Wilks ( 1975 ) and Brody ( 1976 ) being perhaps the best known — came to the same negative conclusion . |
| 13 | Was n't she motivated by the same inner compulsion , the urge to forge ahead ? |
| 14 | Over and over again , the hands danced through the same short sequence of signs . |
| 15 | The chart-room section held nothing that a chart-room should not have had , including a locked cupboard which Talbot opened in the same cavalier fashion he had used on the bridge : it held only pilot books and sailing directions . |
| 16 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 17 | He brushed with the same dead regard the face of the man his agents were still seeking in the matter of the Leicester treason , and Brother John gazed back at him earnestly and impartially , and was moved to distant pity . |
| 18 | ‘ Wrote to each other for a while , ’ he echoed with the same derisive twist to his mouth . |
| 19 | There seems to be no sense in which the idea of the Commonwealth can be said to have developed from Indirect Rule , but the similarity of the language employed , and the fact that enthusiasts for one were usually enthusiasts for the other , would appear to suggest that the two ideas sprang from the same rich soil , composted over the years of imperial fact and imperial fancy . |
| 20 | These incidents are rare not only because national emergencies are mercifully infrequent , but because for much of the time there is an instinctive understanding between the governors of the broadcasting organization and the government of the nation , as the corporation 's behaviour on issues like appeasement demonstrates ; Reith succumbed to the same collective delusion that had seized Chamberlain , his foreign secretary , Halifax , and most of the population . |
| 21 | Twenty years later Channel Four , originally conceived as a publishing house for independent producers , succumbed to the same institutional pressures . |
| 22 | The land scorpions were not direct descendants , but belonged to the same broad group and certainly shared the same savage habits . |
| 23 | The hyena remains that William Buckland took as evidence of the deluge belonged to the same recent period , as did the giant deer sometimes called the ‘ Irish elk ’ . |
| 24 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 25 | Yet Sidonius belonged to the same aristocratic class as Salvian and the early ascetics of Lérins , although he belonged to a younger generation . |
| 26 | My poor old mother , and me sister finished at the same big house , servant there for them . |
| 27 | Secondly , to try to increase the validity of inter-racial comparison we decided to compare arrest rates of Black , Asian and White males who lived in the same small areas . |
| 28 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 29 | Buchanan asked in the same mild tone . |
| 30 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |