Example sentences of "[coord] [pos pn] [noun] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I babysit for them about once a fortnight while Graham stays at home with our own children , and she or her husband do the same for us , ’ explains Sally . |
| 2 | Wilson-Kastner finds her ‘ high ’ Christology and her feminism to embody the same ideals . |
| 3 | I 'm just like my mum , when it comes down to it , That 's why I quite admired Auntie Muriel , in a guarded sort of way I 'd think , I really should try to be like her , she was so content , nothing ever fazed her , I did n't want to be a farmer , understand , but I did n't want to be like mum either , tied to a feckless man , trying to keep him and me , having to hustle all the time to stop from sinking I fancied myself on a corporate asteroid , settling down with someone who would cherish me and buy me everything I wanted Carmen and her crew had the same ideas , even if they acted like they were going to be bad girls for ever , |
| 4 | The relevant contracts will include provisions requiring the private contractors and their employees to adopt the same standards in protecting the privacy of taxpayer information as apply to Revenue employees . |
| 5 | He waved frantically , and his sister did the same . |
| 6 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 7 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 8 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |
| 9 | ‘ And your boyfriend feels the same way , presumably ? ’ |
| 10 | And your totems have the same names as my masks , but I made those names up ! |
| 11 | yes alright well let's leave that one and let's see and I stand corrected , but my point remains the same if er , erm , er my duty under article five is not to find to the anti competition laws is it ? |
| 12 | But their attitude remains the same — ‘ Well we treat them all the same whether they are Asian or English ’ . |
| 13 | But her mother had the same sort of chin . |
| 14 | Twice the Devil has been decisively defeated by God , but his strategies remain the same . |
| 15 | If you change your beliefs but your life stays the same and you feel the same , then you have n't really changed those beliefs , or perhaps more deeply rooted beliefs are blocking you . |