Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] 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 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 6 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 7 | He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If he 'd shoot one person who challenged him , Marius Steen would do the same to anyone else he thought represented the same threat . |
| 10 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 11 | Earlier he had made the same gesture , in the car when she was afraid of the storm , the sky rolling over on itself , hanging over the wheatfields . |
| 12 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 13 | When I recounted the tale to Steve Richardson , the blockbuster of the European last year and , like Daly , playing his first Masters , he quietly replied that he had played the same hole with a drive and seven-iron . |
| 14 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 15 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 16 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 17 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 18 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 19 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 20 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 21 | Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised . |
| 22 | I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason . |
| 23 | As she did so , Caspar turned with her , and Fenella knew he had had the same idea . |
| 24 | Even earlier , in 1751 , he had had the same theme in mind when he began On the Immensity of the Supreme Being : |
| 25 | He had used the same reply himself on occasion . |
| 26 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 27 | Even if he had used the same words , his non verbal communication in the two situations would have conveyed a very different attitude . |
| 28 | By 1984 , he had performed the same task for showbiz mainstreamers like Robert Goulet , Neil Sedaka and Tina Turner , and landed a job as second host on a short-lived talk show . |
| 29 | He had eagled the same hole earlier . |
| 30 | He had worked the same hours , on the same farm for nine years but he was paid as a casual labourer , and so had no right to a pension , to notice pay — not even to the right of appeal . |