Example sentences of "[pron] the [det] as " in BNC.

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1 He might be my best friend but he will treat me the same as any other player and will only pick me for a Test if I am bowling well .
2 Apart from this minor eccentricity — and I knew old people often became eccentric — she seemed to me the same as she had always been : vague in practical matters but sharp-witted enough in other ways , and eager to talk about what was happening in the world .
3 That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends .
4 He said : ‘ I buy them the same as I buy anything else and pass them on .
5 He adds : ‘ In the last year , most restaurants have brought their prices down or kept them the same as last year .
6 Parenthood promises them the same as the women — a future .
7 No , you make them the same as us !
8 Am I the same as him ?
9 Its the same as making a formula one car go at 200 miles an hour for each and every driver … handling is down to individual skill
10 But there again its the same as Murdoch in it ?
11 That 's west unless we 're off course , in which case it 's night ; the King gave me the same as you , the King gave you the same as me : the King never gave me the letter , the King gave you the letter , we do n't know what 's in the letter ; we take Hamlet to the English King , it depending on when we get there who he is , and we hand over the letter , which may or may not have something in it to keep us going , and if not , we are finished and at a loose end , if they have loose ends .
12 I believe that , that that procedure could apply to you the same as it can to Roger and Terry
13 Cos I did a weekend and so she said well erm I 'll tell you what Ann she said , I 'll give you a cheque myself she said cos you , you 'll I 'll pay you the same as
14 I 'll pay you the same as what I pay you on a Saturday is that okay ?
15 well your mum said to me well I 'll tell you the same as I 've told Con but I said I 'm not against the children or anything the children
16 ‘ My dad looks very like me , he has everything the same as me — even the same hair and freckles all over his face .
17 There were no squabbles … as long as they did everything the same as anybody else and paid their fees , which were exactly the same .
18 ‘ I suspect , ’ Gloria said , ‘ he 'll tell them something the same as I did .
19 and then Mr I think necessarily may be saying something the same as or , along the same lines as Mr and then Mr have er yet another go , I think it , that 's in which case I 'm not very satisfactory because er it means that Mr has got to reassemble his final remarks erm , twice
20 We , we do find it as a , as a group very difficult to organise ourselves and for us to have some time to sit down together and feed off one another and talk about it so this is quite , that 's quite hopeful , and I think that does show erm , something the same as er , I 'm sure Jack would say the same thing , like here we are , you know , we 've got all the incoming calls , we 've got all the other stuff to do , and what we 're actually doing when we 're trying to make appointments and so on is we , we fit it in , because we 're half way through
21 In what factual sense are we the same as animals ?
22 And it was a completely different fitting to the other one so I was gon na get one the same as the old one
23 Is this one the same as we 've got in that erm wad again ?
24 Well making , given him the same as us .
25 Did that make her the same as Amelia as the others ?
26 Are they the same as pra , are , are they the same as primary , secondary , and tertiary .
27 Are they the same as pra , are , are they the same as primary , secondary , and tertiary .
28 But is it the same as the hypothetical hypothalamic growth hormone releasing factor ?
29 What follows from this is decisive for our whole discussion : doubt is not the opposite of faith , nor is it the same as unbelief .
30 Secondly , we should note that the adding of information is not the same here as expanding units omitted through ellipsis ( see 2.7 ) ; nor is it the same as tautologically duplicating elements included in the meaning of words and saying , for example :
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