Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carter had advocated deregulation , but he approached reform via legislation whereas his successor sought the same end primarily through administrative action . |
| 2 | He admires the work of the PFA and wants his association to win the same respect . |
| 3 | And why , if his enemy had the same thought in mind , should he toss it back to him so carelessly ? |
| 4 | His grin held the same hint of mocking , almost insolent provocation as when he had taunted Alain Gebrec . |
| 5 | We noted the grim approaches ; incessant traffic noise in narrow streets ; parked vehicles hemming in the pavement ; rubbish dumps on waste land nearby ; the absence of green playing spaces on or near the school sites ; tiny playgrounds ; gaunt looking buildings ; often poor decorative conditions inside ; narrow passages ; dark rooms ; unheated and cramped cloakrooms ; unroofed outside lavatories ; tiny staff rooms ; inadequate storage space with consequent restrictions on teaching materials and therefore methods ; inadequate space for movement and P.E. ; meals in classroom ; art on desks ; music only to the discomfort of others in an echoing building ; non-soundproof partitions between classes ; lack of smaller rooms for group work ; lack of spare room for tuition of small groups ; insufficient display space ; attractive books kept unseen in cupboards for lack of space to lay them out ; no privacy for parents wishing to see the head ; sometimes the head and his secretary sharing the same room ; and , sometimes all around , the ingrained grime of generations . |
| 6 | Yet the sight of his daughter going the same way seriously displeased him . |
| 7 | Paul Davies is a guru of mathematical physics and his book covers the same territory as that of Hawking ( whom he cites often ) and Gribbin and is almost as impenetrable ; however , he makes every effort to take the layman along with him , so that by judicious and generous skipping you do gain something of value . |
| 8 | We are not interested here in whether a second investigator who slavishly follows in the footsteps of his predecessor gets the same results . |
| 9 | Whether his descendant has the same staying power remains to be seen . |
| 10 | His tone had the same finality as the sound of the door closing behind them . |
| 11 | One person who spends much of his time doing the same thing is Master of Wine Tim Hanni from the Beringer Vineyards School for American Chefs . |
| 12 | It was time his mother felt the same kind of distress , the same feeling of being rootless ; after all , that woman had stolen her father away . |
| 13 | He 'd picked up the baby and held her while Ma gave her the medicine , and his face had the same look as when Billy had fallen in the river . |