Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nick and she , they were proportioned to each other , they seemed to belong to the same tribe . |
| 2 | It is now going to be very difficult for the Lions to win this series , although they did come from the same position to win the series four years ago in Australia . |
| 3 | Diana Travers was n't a member of her birthday party but they did dine at the same restaurant , the Black Swan on the river at Cookham . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 6 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 7 | Each sect accused the other of wishing to observe the prescribed religious festivals at the wrong times , although in practice they had to keep to the same dates . |
| 8 | He fell into step beside her and they continued to walk in the same direction . |
| 9 | They tended to move in the same circles and share many of the same values as the liberal nobility and progressively minded public opinion articulated by journalists , writers , professors , and students . |
| 10 | However , local MP Tony Banks says they wanted to get across the same message . |