Example sentences of "[verb] [art] same of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I asked the same of Benjamin as we walked out of a postern gate of St Bartholomew 's back towards the river , but my master was only half-listening . |
| 2 | On that occasion he had been treated with a degree of courtesy not far short of deference and he had subconsciously expected the same of his interview with Chief Inspector Golding . |
| 3 | King : They say the same of me , and always will In England , where to excel is still a crime . |
| 4 | Martha 's father has the same of those Micronesian tortoises , sort of run for ages and ages and in fact he says he 's over two hundred years old . |
| 5 | He believed that and she believed the same of him , and now … ? |
| 6 | It is not just that beetles and mice are pests ( we might have said the same of ladybirds and the pursuit of wildfowl ) , but rather that the relative similarity of the larger mammals to ourselves materially affects our thinking and is reflected in our instinctive responses . |
| 7 | But time was when I would have said the same of you , ’ he added wryly , and took heart at hearing Hugh laugh , if only briefly and softly . |
| 8 | He requires the same of his people . |
| 9 | A measure of the difference between Mr Major 's personal standing and Mrs Thatcher 's is that , whereas a mere 19 per cent of voters on Friday and Saturday said they thought Mr Major would make the worst Prime Minister , nearly double that proportion , 34 per cent , thought the same of Mrs Thatcher five years ago . |
| 10 | You probably think the same of me . ’ |
| 11 | And I presume the same of you . |
| 12 | He expects the same of those around him . |
| 13 | He expects the same of those around him . |
| 14 | ( The same critic said the same of Little Big Man . ) |
| 15 | She would have been surprised to learn that observant Dr Neil was thinking the same of her and her abundant energy . |
| 16 | We can hardly deny that " existence predicates " carry a logically independent descriptive content without being prepared to say the same of " truth-predicates " . |
| 17 | ‘ I was just about to ask the same of you , ’ he countered promptly . |
| 18 | There can not be many who would say the same of Tyson . |
| 19 | Years later I could say the same of my old MGB . |
| 20 | ‘ You could say the same of the people in the cars , ’ said Tina . |
| 21 | O'Neill could say the same of his own team . |
| 22 | Nigel used to say , ‘ If you can read , you can cook , ’ and I would say the same of gardening . |
| 23 | And should we say the same of the large dalmatian sitting beside her , and also of her 6-month-old child strapped in the back seat ? |
| 24 | We might well say the same of a very young infant . |
| 25 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 26 | I would say the same of a case in which a child of any age consented to donate an organ : such a case is not , of course , covered by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 on any view of the matter . |
| 27 | ‘ He would say the same of us . |
| 28 | ‘ Burun would say the same of you , ’ Alexei said equably . |
| 29 | I only wish I could say the same of some other companies ! |
| 30 | ‘ I would I could say the same of you . ’ |