Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was one of the less pleasant aspects of his present occupation that the Didier School of Cuisine was constantly mentioned in the same breath as Mrs Marshall 's nearby School of Cookery . |
| 2 | We allmost fainted with fright and was only stayed from the same fate by the hand of his Lordship , who handed the keeper the dove ( fake ) the keeper shut its hand and with a gurgling noise vanished with a clang of its lid , and all went pitch . |
| 3 | People usually married within their own clan , and the caste system was thus maintained in the same hereditary form as in most other parts of India . |
| 4 | In three of them , bleeding was finally controlled during the same session . |
| 5 | They had all their limited attention focused on Hrun , who was admittedly built on the same lines as themselves . |
| 6 | No I was just , I was just thinking about the same . |
| 7 | My Lord erm just to sweep up one or two of the other , very briefly the points my learned friend has just raised , erm I , I think it follows that our provisional position at the moment is that we think that reference is probably more satisfactory than simply going to the commission , what went , if your Lordship went to the commission and then found that they were unsatisfactory or did n't really take matters further , for one of the reasons it might very well not , is because the original complaint put to the commission was not framed in the same way as the defence and counterclaim are now framed , er there 's been a very considerable amount of refinement , both parties would no doubt wish to put submissions into the commission as to how the answer should be put or to provide information so the commission can answer them and so on and so forth and it may not be any quicker doing it that way |
| 8 | This approach assumed a degree of consensus within the family which was not assumed to the same extent in any other social institution . |
| 9 | The general fast was not regarded with the same favour everywhere ; in London it was dubbed ‘ General Farce ’ by the National Union of the Working Classes , which organised a demonstration . |
| 10 | It was a pity that Matthew was not made of the same admirable stuff . |
| 11 | Literariness being defined as the difference between automatism and defamiliarization , it was soon perceived that it was not constructed in the same way in all works , and that the devices manifesting difference in prose narrative were not the same as the devices manifesting difference in lyric poetry . |
| 12 | The French interest in European unity was not shared to the same extent by Britain . |
| 13 | ‘ Once I had realized that Tenison , the consulting engineer , was not spelt in the same way as Tennyson , our late-lamented poet Laureate , I had no difficulty . ’ |
| 14 | Admittedly , he was not driven by the same devoutly mercenary ambitions of some of his colleagues and sought artistic satisfaction wherever possible . |
| 15 | In all his years of teaching , Alexander did not come across anyone that was not afflicted by the same problem . |
| 16 | On 18 September ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Zeesen ’ was formally christened in the same newspaper , the name soon becoming exclusively attached to the tones of William Joyce . |
| 17 | Mrs. E. Moore of Lion Lane , Haslemere was prompted to send in this photo when she saw the picture of the club 's novelty dress cricket team ( Peeps March 13th ) which was possibly taken around the same time . |
| 18 | If , during training , the rat was always released in the same place , and if it was then released in a different one , it could still swim directly to the platform . |
| 19 | Well the capsule was always worked in the same , in the way |
| 20 | He was still sitting in the same chair , staring into space like a man in a trance . |
| 21 | When I came back , cos I went in on the way to the hairdresser 's , to find out about it , and I thought I 'd buy him on the way back , when I went back it was still sitting in the same place with its tail hanging out of the back . |
| 22 | That monolith to Lasso Rinding Puang Sangalla , the last great king of the Star Children , was still lying in the same position when I next visited the Rante — eleven years later . |
| 23 | Her car was still parked in the same place , already it looked dusty and unused . |
| 24 | Claudia raced for the towel ; he was still standing in the same place and still looking helpless as she dealt briskly with the spill . |
| 25 | This move was probably motivated by the same considerations that led to the Perkins ' choice of a site near Harrow , and to its eventual abandonment . |
| 26 | They argue that Y6N17 could not be easily produced by volcanism , and was probably formed by the same impact event as the Haiti glasses . |
| 27 | An office was opened in Nairobi in an attempt to sell advertising time to commercial companies operating from there , and a London representative was later appointed for the same purpose . |
| 28 | In his definitive book Elgar On Record , Jerrold Northrop Moore says that this item was recorded before the landlines were working ; but the ‘ Woodland Interlude ’ from Caractacus was recorded under his supervision and this item plus the first half of Dream Children was later copied onto the same side for publication . |
| 29 | He was also seen on the same Monday slightly later standing at Crown Point , Martlesham . |
| 30 | It was also announced at the same time that Ong Teng Cheong , the other Deputy Prime Minister , was suffering from cancer . |