Example sentences of "a [noun sg] for the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean Goodwin presented a £300 cheque to Dr. Bathall for Cardiac Support Group , and Heather Trimming presented a cheque for the same amount to Mrs. Todd for the Alton branch of Sight Concern Hampshire . |
| 2 | The same gallery had a pastel study of a hand by Degas for the painting ‘ Mademoiselle Fiocre ’ while Galerie Heim next door had a foot for the same work . |
| 3 | He wrote a Prologue and ‘ The Song of the Wreck ’ for Wilkie Collins 's The Lighthouse , 1855 , and a Prologue for the same author 's The Frozen Deep , 1856 . |
| 4 | Here 's a better attempt at a caption for the same picture . |
| 5 | John Taylor , the Unionist MP for South Tyrone , also made representations and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers , a body led by Ian Paisley , announced a meeting for the same time and place as the civil rights rally . |
| 6 | As I understand it , the ruling states that if a chick makes tea once a week for the same guy — she gets half his dough . |
| 7 | The odds cited above would have given little comfort to the man in Kurunagala who , during a rash of cattle thefts , had to pay a ransom for the same animal seven times before finally selling it for the paltry sum of two rupees . |
| 8 | Like Mrs Secretan , Elizabeth had married off a daughter , like her she had lived in fear ( then unfounded ) of cancer , and had felt uncomfortably sure that she had offended someone ; like Elinor Pringle she had filled up time in odd places , during short periods of being alone ; like Meg , she knew the fascination of the Thames estuary ; with Patrick Barlow she shared the accidie of the writer , and a love for the same sort of painting . |
| 9 | Originally rivals , they have succeeded in identifying themselves with one another by means of a love for the same object . |
| 10 | You can fit drawer chests inside the units for easier storage of items like underwear and socks , or you could use sliding baskets in a rack for the same purpose . |
| 11 | Asquith replied that the question of mandates was not so simple , but he was opposed to an election for the same reason as Unionists wanted one : — both knew that Home Rule was not a winning policy outside Ireland . |
| 12 | In Reg. v. Miles ( 1890 ) 24 Q.B.D. 423 it was held that a person who had been convicted of an assault by a court of summary jurisdiction , but had been discharged , without any sentence of fine or imprisonment , on giving security to be of good behaviour , could not afterwards be convicted on an indictment for the same assault . |