Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] same [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
2 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
3 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
4 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
5 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
6 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
7 | Rather , while they showed the same pattern of alternating between slow wave sleep and REM sleep about every ninety minutes , the proportion of light sleep stages ( I and 2 ) was low . |
8 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
9 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
10 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
11 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
12 | They took the same tube for the first few stops . |
13 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
14 | They attended the same school in Chelsea , became firm friends and many years later were to work together at Cambridge in the interests of botany . |
15 | and you know and then they said the same thing to her they said come back next weekend and we 'll sort it out . |
16 | Well I du n no , I mean on the one hand in nine in nineteen forty five I think it was , they were saying you know well in order to do , have s s s successful land reform you need three conditions , they said the same thing in nineteen forty eight , they said you need this , this , this and then we have to be militarily secure but then in nineteen forty six they 're saying no , do n't worry about it , just get the land reform sorted out , just do it . |
17 | She was n't his life : she was his youth ; Constanza says they had the same kind of public behaviour and as one gets older it counts . |
18 | Their clothing and equipment was more functional , but they carried the same pattern of long sword . |
19 | They held the same look of hate and cruelty . |