Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We would n't want him to play the same trick on us , stealing our clients so he can deal them elsewhere , " said Fox Milton director Philip Raisey .
2 Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’
3 His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself .
4 And force him to ask the same questions of his life , and to reply : This is all there is and it is enough .
5 In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria .
6 His weeklies were produced by new technology in defiance of union opposition , and he planned the same methods for Today .
7 He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent .
8 But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive .
9 He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland .
10 Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited .
11 Later in the year he conveyed the same message to the visiting American Under-Secretary of State , George Ball .
12 But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees .
13 Again he found the same link between unemployment and mortality .
14 The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes .
15 The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office .
16 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug .
17 But then Carver had heard that on other occasions he used the same language about Galvone .
18 Face it , he used the same joke on everybody .
19 He used the same line with his mother ; for once he did n't give her the real reason .
20 and he wants the same facility with his left as with his right .
21 He says the same thing about a range of measures , including the measures advocated by the Labour party , which would put many part-time women employees out of work .
22 Then he transferred the same hand to the back pocket of his trousers and did some not very good patting of both flanks .
23 In the extreme south Italy 's history follows , naturally , a Sicilian pattern : we saw that Anaxilas of Rhegion married into the Syracusan tyrannical house , and he practised the same kind of aggression against the neighbouring Greek states as his Sicilian contemporaries .
24 He uses the same strategy in scene one when he realises that he has failed to infer from McKendrick 's prompting that he should have recognised him .
25 He adopted the same principle in the spandrels as William Edwards had used eight years before at Pontypridd ( q.v. ) , lightening the load with hollow tunnels through the rubble infilling .
26 He adopted the same tactic in Biarritz , with the same result .
27 He adopted the same line in his lectures on the foetal circulation — this was a subject of little practical importance , but it was one of which a properly educated man should have some appreciation .
28 Rostov saw the Adjudicator 's eyes widen in surprise as he recognised the same colouring in the skin around the admiral 's high cheekbones .
29 As the pair reached the bottom he saw that she was , as Eleanor had said , very thin , but he noticed the same rhythm in her movements as she walked across the cove .
30 In a curious way — Letterman thinks — he bears the same relationship to Parisian life that the Hispanics have to LA life .
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