Example sentences of "[v-ing] his [noun] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 He rolled off the bed and walked to the window , moving his hands in the same disconcerting manner as before , though in reverse this time .
2 And Goldberg , pushing the hair out of his eyes and wiping his face at the same time with his sleeve , pushed away the typewriter , pulled the pad towards him , seized the felt-tip pen , and wrote : He later admitted that he had merely said between seventeen and eighteen as a manner of speaking .
3 Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it .
4 Uttering a low , violent oath , he grabbed Isabel 's arm and yanked her behind him , drawing his sword at the same time .
5 She paused , collecting her thoughts and studying his face at the same time .
6 Though he did n't actively encourage her , Mr Armstrong had no objections to putting his daughter on the same stage .
7 In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army …
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