Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers .
2 Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier .
3 Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum .
4 In the week following this session Rosemary Frost successfully used the same in Class , amidst many giggles from her students .
5 You only got the same amount of money end of the week .
6 ‘ On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should .
7 On the last tour I basically played the same thing every night and I suddenly came to the realisation that I was n't progressing as much as I should
8 Looking around for his wingman , who had lost him in the manoeuvre and headed for base , he saw another Messerschmitt about to attack him , so repeated the same trick .
9 Who all chose the same colour .
10 He obviously felt the same way , too , as we suddenly flung our arms around each other — we have n't stopped hugging since ! ’
11 I felt relieved that I had my scar from the fight at the summer party and so looked the same as everybody else — I was afraid of appearing different or clever which meant that I would be noticed by the Corporals and picked on by all the others .
12 The pharmaceutical industry unwisely did the same and instituted an expensive advertising campaign .
13 Indeed , his account of their interests gives the impression — and perhaps gave the same impression to Lanfranc — that they were a lot of old gossips chattering about wonders and miracles and gifts of relics , when they should have been engaged on more serious religious observances , or on the studies laid down in the Rule .
14 But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle .
15 ‘ David more or less said the same , but I really do n't know what to think .
16 Although much remained the same as before — the new electorate constituted but one-thirtieth of the population , 31 boroughs still had fewer than 300 electors in each , voting remained by open ballot ( secret ballots were considered rather un-English ) , and the aristocracy still held great sway politically — the act precipitated important changes both within and outside the House of Commons .
17 There was colossal opposition to these developments at the planning stage , but local people 's views were generally ignored by the Tory administration of the day , who basically held the same values as the developers and permitted the schemes .
18 At the height of his troubles we had a similar conversation … only the boot was on the other foot and I just used the same words back to him .
19 This is the reason for the ungrammaticality of : ( 40 ) the only book missing readable is Twyford 's Lives of the Slovak Saints By contrast , the examples of ( 41 ) are fully acceptable : ( 41 ) the only readable book missing is the one I told you about the only missing book readable is the one already mentioned The same contrast is seen in ( 42 ) beside the two cases of ( 43 ) which are both grammatically acceptable ( although not of course quite identical in meaning ) : ( 42 ) *one journalist striking accessible is Jana Flynn ( 43 ) one striking journalist accessible is Jana Flynn one accessible journalist striking is Jana Flynn The restriction is general , applying even if the particular adjectives concerned are ones which can normally appear postnominally .
20 Those who died in the streets attempting to get away suffered the same agonizing fate and were stifled by the fumes .
21 The recruitment of migrant labour has also had what one might refer to as a series of indirect benefits , especially in the earlier phase of immigration , because Britain and the other importing countries were able to avoid the costs involved in actually producing the immigrant labour power , from the birth to the maturation of the workers concerned , and because of the lower demands on the welfare state of economically active , healthy , single , young men and women who nevertheless paid the same rate of taxation as other workers ( Gorz , 1970 ) .
22 The Scots thus faced the same challenge that Edward II had faced in 1314 , and the outcome was the same .
23 Ho separately reached the same conclusion .
24 Even so , that wave of philanthropically inspired work among boys and girls which began in the 1880s had exhausted itself a decade or more later , and despite the opening of new clubs and the formation of the Scouts , youth work no longer inspired the same missionary zeal .
25 But the 1977 Ferrari was by now outmoded and no longer had the same competitive edge .
26 Time no longer had the same meaning down in the basement of the TV company , windowless and illuminated only by artificial light .
27 The fractions in the questions above had the same denominators .
28 In the first car he was stopped ten or more times for no reason at all and always asked the same questions : is this your car … are you sure that it 's your car … are you sure it is n't a stolen car , and then asked to produce his driving documents .
29 Mark always experienced the same feelings of contentment when entering the home straight .
30 The gang always used the same procedure when they wanted to make contact .
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