Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rollnik , for example , finds that he has roughly the same number of really bright students in a year now as in 1960 . |
| 2 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 3 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 4 | Meiklejohn says , " Every adjective is either an explicit or an implicit predicate " , the former corresponding in his book to appearance in predicative position and the latter to attributive use ; and he goes on to show , with examples , that he takes exactly the same view as is found later in accounts given within a Chomskyan framework . |
| 5 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |
| 6 | Val Orford told me he felt much the same way . |
| 7 | He felt much the same sensation now as he searched around for a fresh foothold . |
| 8 | At thirty-two , Malcolm McLaren was seven years older than Branson , yet he looked only the same age , possibly even younger : a short and wiry figure dressed in pointed boots , black jeans and a tight-fitting suit jacket of Italianate design . |
| 9 | because he had exactly the same problems when he moved in |
| 10 | He had exactly the same expression on his face when I mentioned your name as you 've got now . |
| 11 | At the Brummel Club that evening , Ralph had n't changed his mind — he said exactly the same thing — after tonight 's gig you 're finished . |
| 12 | When he said much the same thing at the end of the Council , Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre and the right-wing were up in arms at this ‘ humanism ’ . |