Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ?
2 Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport .
3 His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work .
4 He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’
5 His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey .
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