Example sentences of "they [vb past] in the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair .
2 Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 .
3 they came as the same they came in the same colour mu thing round them we in the red letters saying what they are .
4 Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ .
5 Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged .
6 They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays .
7 Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table .
8 The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen .
9 They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering .
10 He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce .
11 They slept in the same bedroom as me because we were er limited to bedroom space but we had girls because we were doing such a lot of entertaining , there was a lot of work .
12 They slept in the same room as he did .
13 Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry .
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