Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Blishen , the presenter , has an enviable gift for sketching in background and perspective , drawing up different strands of what was happening at the same time to make his argument , all with ease . |
| 2 | You can not deduce from the fact that it was happening at the same time that it was a cause . |
| 3 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 4 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
| 5 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
| 6 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
| 7 | Then I tipped the leg and the can over until the leg was lying at the same angle on the grass as it had been , behind Blyth . |
| 8 | McCoist did snatch at a mistimed clearance from Buttigieg but by then the appeal of a substitution was growing at the same rate as the crowd 's dismay . |
| 9 | At this school exchange , however , my mother met another woman , who had a daughter there , who , miraculously , was going into the same class as me ! |
| 10 | He was going in the same direction , empty . |
| 11 | The longstanding quota of 14 per cent on foreign imports was still in place , but Channel 4 was buying a quarter of its programmes from independent companies , and the BBC was moving in the same direction . |
| 12 | Whereas in much of eastern Europe , which was moving in the same direction , enserfment seems to have been the response of a very powerful nobility to a labour shortage ( made more acute in areas responding to the growing Western market for grain ) , in Russia the State clearly played a greater role . |
| 13 | Soon the whole valley was resounding with the same thud , thud , whack , from every rooftop in the village . |
| 14 | Opened by another Mr Perkins who was staying at the same hotel , the package was passed to police who were ready and waiting for the actor when he arrived at the hotel in Cardiff . |
| 15 | Oh yes , it 's in Scotland , you see , and whilst there , you see , every day er because a lady laughed at me and she said , she was staying in the same hotel and she said er I , I used to book up in advance of course but never took a chance . |
| 16 | According to the Economist , the record also showed that Robert Gray , a senior campaign aide , was staying in the same hotel at that time . |
| 17 | His father was staying in the same house , and did n't know I was staying there , so I used to creep in at night . |
| 18 | ‘ But there was another person who was staying in the same house — the Reverend Arthur Lyle . |
| 19 | That Antony Royd , I remember , Mrs Royd was expecting at the same time as Mrs Bean had Kevin , and he was premature . |
| 20 | The Junior School was expanding at the same time , with two forms ( instead of one ) at each of 7+ and 8+ , with girls admitted here too for the first time . |
| 21 | And now she was saying with the same delight , about someone else , ‘ Absolutely . ’ |
| 22 | He went up to London that day , and in fact was travelling on the same train as Stratton when the two of them arrived back in Oxford . |
| 23 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 24 | What would the public sector borrowing requirement be today if it was running at the same proportion of GDP as in 1975-76 ? |
| 25 | Their request for assistance was referred to a circuit judge who in turn referred it to Ward J. who was sitting in the same circuit centre . |
| 26 | I 'd think twice about levelling those jarges at Jake Burns if he was sitting in the same room as me but seeing as he 's on a car phone whizzing up London 's Tottenham Court Road , what the heck ! |
| 27 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
| 28 | These had gone down rather well , and as our Baroque painting specialist was leaving at the same time as Youngman , voices were raised to say here was perhaps both the lecturer and the administrator we were looking for . |
| 29 | It is , therefore , with a sense of mounting horror that one listens to Acheson sounding the knell of US policy in China in the letter which accompanied what is usually known as the China White paper , oblivious to the possibility that the bell was tolling for the same policy that was being reborn in Vietnam . |
| 30 | To an extent , the stormy exterior mirrored the relationship of their employers , Bernard and Laura ; but underneath everyone was shooting for the same goal . |