Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 They met again at the same hotel .
2 They came up with the same answer as I did , ’ said Mr Hope .
3 They signed up for the same courses and joined the same societies ; they sat together in seminars and went together to the National Film Theatre ; they had sex together and moved together into a one-roomed flat in their second year .
4 After all , they started out from the same nest of opportunities as the rats who are now fatter .
5 She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine .
6 But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them .
7 They looked along the Atlantic coast of North America for places in which to settle , and they might have been more successful in founding colonies if they had not at the same time been engaged in what they saw as a desperate struggle to save their religious and political liberties from Catholic Spain , although the Spanish would have said the war was to some extent intended to check the rather aggressive interpretation the English placed on the idea of the freedom of the seas .
8 Fortunately , Dod and Chase had been provided with camping stools and although Dod 's creaked a bit under his weight , it did mean they stayed roughly in the same place .
9 They parted eventually on the same curious , jovial note , and Nicholas returned to his villa .
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