Example sentences of "i [vb past] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 2 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 3 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 4 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 5 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 6 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 7 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 8 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 9 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 10 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |