Example sentences of "[vb past] in the same [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to get over it , but he behaved in the same alarming manner in court this morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Are there servants in the house ? ’ he asked in the same low voice . |
| 4 | Buchanan asked in the same mild tone . |
| 5 | ‘ So how , then , do you propose we get to know each other ? ’ he asked in the same soft tone . |
| 6 | EACH DAY ROSE and fell in the same quiet pattern . |
| 7 | Then he resumed in the same imperious tone . |
| 8 | The detective with the cigar spoke in the same unhurried voice . |
| 9 | ‘ I wonder who you truly are ? ’ he queried in the same soft voice that proved that her thoughts had been correct . |
| 10 | ‘ Once I began to put together my chain of companies , I had certain responsibilities to the people I employed , ’ Julius said in the same curt tone . |
| 11 | It was with difficulty that Greg restrained himself from saying ‘ What ! ’ , but knowing that his colleague would assume that he was being told he was about to become an unmarried father , and spread it , he said in the same world-weary voice : ‘ That 's very interesting . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Neither , ’ he continued in the same gentle tone of voice , ‘ am I prepared to be cast as some Viking lover straight out of a Hollywood film , rampaging and raping so that you can put the full responsibilities of your actions on me . |
| 13 | But his voice continued in the same frightful hiss . |
| 14 | He phrased it as a question , but she did n't bother dignifying it with an answer , and he continued in the same grating tone . |
| 15 | The second half continued in the same exciting pattern as the first , but for all Witney 's pressure , it was Yate who took the lead . |
| 16 | ‘ So , back to work in two weeks or so and then where ? ’ he continued in the same quiet voice . |
| 17 | His whole body still , poised , his eyes still holding hers , he continued in the same soft voice . |
| 18 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |