Example sentences of "were all [verb] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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1 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
2 | The absconding muleteer , the swindling innkeeper and the devious customs-house officer were all treated to the same display of unthwartable will . |
3 | ALSO we 've only lost 3 and at least one of those was ‘ unfortunate ’ AND they were all clustered in the same period . |
4 | She did this by lining up the nuclei of radioactive atoms in a magnetic field , so that they were all spinning in the same direction , and showed that the electrons were given off more in one direction than another . |
5 | They were separate , there was space between them , but , like flowers in a vase , they were all standing in the same water . |
6 | They were all playing by the same rules . |
7 | One night they were all sitting round the same as usual , in the kitchen this time , Pete and Tommy and a friend of Tommy 's , they were sitting round drinking the whisky Tommy 's friend had brought over when they heard footsteps in the yard . |
8 | In the 1920s , when astronomers began to look at the spectra of stars in other galaxies , they found something most peculiar : there were the same characteristic sets of missing colours as for stars in our own galaxy , but they were all shifted by the same relative amount toward the red end of the spectrum . |