Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and his trusty assistant , Detective Sergeant William Bird , were speeding up the same road . |
| 2 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 3 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | And you were doing exactly the same thing were n't you ? |
| 5 | There was no difference between ourselves and Tom Jones , we were trotting out the same material night after night and it was so safe and predictable — two things I 'd always vowed Stiff Little Fingers would never be . |
| 6 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |