Example sentences of "they [verb] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " 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 Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 .
3 We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system .
4 Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do !
5 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 .
6 so that modifications could be introduced in the physical , social or educational environments of these children which would help them achieve at the same level of conceptual development as is found in children from western societies .
7 It takes them back into the past and helps them relax at the same time .
8 And , the discomfort is made even more acute when two or three of them arrive by the same post .
9 Six of them originated from the same bar on Corfu — 500 miles from the island of Kos where Ben first vanished .
10 As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree .
11 Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music .
12 They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair .
13 Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 .
14 Thus , while trade unionists wished old people to be kept at a level of economic decency , they realized at the same time that pensions without a retirement condition would erode the wage structure and weaken trade union bargaining .
15 They change in the same society over time ; for example , when one society is at war with another , some people are actively encouraged to wound and kill other people from the enemy group .
16 And they make to the same place to their feed .
17 ‘ Oh no ! ’ they exclaimed at the same time .
18 Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ?
19 If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier .
20 If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier .
21 In other words , they appear at the same time at widely separated localities .
22 They sleep in the same room with each other , and look beautiful when I am putting them to bed , jumping and hopping about quite naked , rejoicing in the freedom of no clothes .
23 In the first nine regions , including the social variables would have resulted in a change of target allocations which opposed the effect of reducing the weighting of standardised mortality ratio — that is , they act in the same direction as standardised mortality ratio .
24 They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) .
25 They came from the same country .
26 These characteristics very considerably , but similar patterns can be found in several different churches and one can be fairly confident they came from the same workshop .
27 Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother .
28 I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse .
29 they came as the same they came in the same colour mu thing round them we in the red letters saying what they are .
30 We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ .
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