Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [art] same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd adopted the same philosophy of pricing that . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 4 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 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 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 10 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 13 | ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall . |
| 14 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 15 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |
| 16 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 17 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 18 | By 1984 , he had performed the same task for showbiz mainstreamers like Robert Goulet , Neil Sedaka and Tina Turner , and landed a job as second host on a short-lived talk show . |
| 19 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 20 | They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times . |
| 21 | Nearly all of us had had the same sort of education and shared a common social background . |
| 22 | Even earlier , in 1751 , he had had the same theme in mind when he began On the Immensity of the Supreme Being : |
| 23 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 24 | Now , if the Liaison Office had got the same number from Maxim , then the embassy gossip vine had to be more security-minded than she believed possible for it not to come to one conclusion . |
| 25 | The Rampton Report ( 1981 ) had used the same processes of data collection and presentation , comparing only overarching ethnic categories such as West Indian , Asian and White with no discussion of sex differences within each . |
| 26 | When I recounted the tale to Steve Richardson , the blockbuster of the European last year and , like Daly , playing his first Masters , he quietly replied that he had played the same hole with a drive and seven-iron . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Eleven-year-old Tildey Lockyer from Liphook proved her superior skills when handling golden retriever Toby , and in the gundog class , Chris Melling beat his father , who had entered the same class with the same dog ! |
| 30 | My soldiers had inherited the same genes from the present queen as those old soldiers had inherited from the ancestral queens . |