Example sentences of "of [pron] [verb] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
2 | She has had fifty governments since the end of the war , many of them dominated by the same personalities and the same political party . |
3 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
4 | And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post . |
5 | Six of them originated from the same bar on Corfu — 500 miles from the island of Kos where Ben first vanished . |
6 | Their colour-similarity is a necessary condition of their belonging to the same colour species , not a definition of their colour . |
7 | Mr Faulks said : ‘ Inside the police found a complete confidence trickster 's set with 26 different charge cards either in the name of Garawand or in the name of Yousefi and ten cheque books , four of which related to the same account at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Darlington . ’ |
8 | The former was the obvious clash between Britain 's need for exports to pay her way in the post-war world and the requirement of the rearmament programme , both of which competed for the same scarce skills and resources of the metal-working industries to the detriment of the export trade . |
9 | Figure 5 is another little collection from my trophy room , all of which developed in the same kind of way . |
10 | These openings , some of which occur in the same place year after year , are often of great biological importance , allowing light to penetrate , phytoplankton to bloom , and whales , seals and seabirds to survive when the rest of the sea remains covered . |
11 | There are , however , four distinct stages in the development of phylloxera , all of which belong to the same Phylloxera vastatrix life-cycle : the sexual , the leaf , the root and the winged form . |
12 | It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith . |
13 | It has become a practice of mine to return to the same sight and work throughout the seasons . |
14 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |