Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Then I figured I 'd better try the same approach on guitar , so I put a really high nut on this old Gibson Melody Maker and I started using bottleneck on it .
2 He also points out that a commitment to equality implies also a commitment to a state which will push everybody around until they are equal — Procrustes was a figure in Greek mythology who forced all those he came across to become the same height , either by chopping bits off or by using a rack to stretch their legs .
3 Everyone in the stand went home saying the same thing — I 'd have got that one .
4 Arthur had obviously had the same idea .
5 I knew that Brian had already made the same decision , but , unlike the other two , he had no need to talk about it .
6 It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others .
7 Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 .
8 Masklin had just asked the same question .
9 But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven .
10 He had always felt the same elation at the end of his long tours abroad .
11 Allan Lamb had probably seen the same selector : he hit sixty for Northants , their top scorer .
12 From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number .
13 For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed .
14 Marsden explained that hospital social workers had negotiated their role in discharge in the 1970s , when the Freeman Hospital had been built — ‘ discharges do n't happen without social services input ’ — and had then spread the same working practices to Newcastle 's other two acute hospitals .
15 Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately .
16 The Greek Orthodox Church had earlier reached the same conclusion .
17 Walter Hallstein , the West German representative at Messina and the first President of the EEC Commission , had earlier stressed the same point : ‘ We are not integrating economies , we are integrating politics .
18 Bigger , wider , grander in all its dimensions than the houses the Colcloughs and the Lords had built , since John-William had cleverly engaged the same architect and told him to produce something similar but much more splendid .
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