Example sentences of "[vb past] in the [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midland rose in the same way as it later fell — by acquisition . |
| 2 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 3 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 4 | It accelerated in the nineteenth century as industrialisation took place , and increased even more rapidly in the twentieth century under the impact of advanced technology and science . |
| 5 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
| 6 | His Test debut came in the same match as Gordon Greenidge against India in 1973–4 , Greenidge totalling 200 runs and Richards 7 ; in the next game he made 192 not out and was under way . |
| 7 | Then calculate the distance walked in the same way as above . |
| 8 | Just under half lived in the same household as the dementia sufferer ( 45 per cent ) ; most of the remainder lived within easy reach : 14 per cent in the same street or only a few minutes ' walk away , 20 per cent within two miles , ten per cent within five miles , and only 11 per cent further than five miles away ( although in Newham 36 per cent of the principal carers lived more than two miles away compared with only 12 per cent in Ipswich ) . |
| 9 | Although visiting grandparents was the basis of many significant memories and relationships , it is surprising that in the first set of interviews there are even more significant mentions of grandparents who at some point lived in the same house as their children . |
| 10 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
| 11 | In this strange institution we did not even know all the people who worked in the same room as ourselves , as the action went on twenty-four hours a day , and we were on duty on varying shifts . |
| 12 | ‘ He was a very old man who worked in the same room as John Dyson and myself . ’ |
| 13 | Jean worked in the same department as a Spotter and Darner since she joined the company in 1969 . |
| 14 | Andy and Peter are both happy to admit that TMAM started in the same way as most enthusiast-driven collections — with no collecting policy at all . |
| 15 | They all started in the same place as the Beatles … the Cavern Club in Liverpool . |
| 16 | Discarded papers blew in the narrow street as they walked back to the car . |
| 17 | Insects buzzed in the hot night as they got out of the moke . |
| 18 | It was not for that generation to complain if the inhabitants of India and of the dependent colonies took them at their word , albeit a mistaken word : the myth of an Empire exploited by the United Kingdom was a plant which grew in the same soil as the myth of an Empire that alone secured ‘ adequate prosperity ’ to the forty or fifty million inhabitants of the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | For Francois Hotman , the author of Francogallia , as well as for the ( still uncertain ) author of the Vindiciae contra Tyrannos ( 1579 ) , and for the Scottish writer George Buchanan , whose tract De Jure Regni apud Scotos appeared in the same year as the Vindiciae , it is for the people to decide when and if a ruler has become a tyrant . |
| 20 | The Theatre Royal , Leeds , 1923 : Doris Carter ( top row , second left ) appeared in the same line as her aunt , Gertie Whalley ( front row , left ) . |
| 21 | They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering . |
| 22 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |
| 23 | Yeah because you slept in the same quilt as him , you |
| 24 | They slept in the same bedroom as me because we were er limited to bedroom space but we had girls because we were doing such a lot of entertaining , there was a lot of work . |
| 25 | They slept in the same room as he did . |
| 26 | Crilly wakes and tells me about when he was little and slept in the same room as his father , while his sisters slept with his mother . |
| 27 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 28 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |
| 29 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 30 | The notes hovered in the still air as he played a lament then errupted into a dance rhythm . |