Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits , or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end , or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house , or bothered young women on the subway . |
| 2 | It was recognized that a work of literature might employ , to advance its serious purpose , a style which resembled , or had the same effect as , the pornographer 's : here the jury was to be assisted to draw the line by experts who would offer judgments as to the degree of importance the article represented in its particular discipline . |
| 3 | Asked if moral values have got better , worse , or stayed the same over the past ten years , 82 per cent said they had got worse . |
| 4 | From Los Angeles came a report of a film theatre that shared the same building with an undertaker and where the hall itself was squalid and narrow with grease spots on the wall where ‘ delighted spectators have leaned their enraptured heads ’ . |
| 5 | The countries that were under the control of ruling Marxist-Leninist parties represented , for the USSR , the ‘ world socialist system ’ , a community of nations that shared the same political , social and economic interests . |
| 6 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 7 | For another industry that followed the same path one has to look no further than the world 's steel industry . |
| 8 | The young corporal at the bolt-hole grinned and raised his thumb in a gesture that meant the same the world over . |
| 9 | There were several words that meant the same thing . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , they played in blue strips and Nicholas could not face the prospect of signing for a team that wore the same colour of shirts as Rangers , and so he returned to Celtic Boys Club to await his calling from Paradise . |
| 11 | They noted two Bisto packets , that had the same picture , were different sizes . |
| 12 | Anyway , a friend told me that there was a band a long time ago , in the '60s , that had the same name . |
| 13 | If someone said oh we do n't want two pipes it 's a bit messy , take them out and replace them by one that had the same resistance , that lets the same amount of water through , what would you replace those by ? |
| 14 | Yes , we had purchased the yellow polystyrene shampoo guard from Mothercare — that had the same effect on them as two crossed sticks had on Dracula . |
| 15 | Whereas that was one group that had the same number in fact more than that we had ninety people there . |
| 16 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 17 | ‘ Yet we still sat next to each other on the team bus and shared the same room . |
| 18 | Both were just 23 and shared the same love of horses , fresh air and country pursuits . |
| 19 | If there were two designers they must have worked closely together and shared the same highly trained team of executants . |
| 20 | This culture , and all subsequent isolates that were identified as the epidemic strain , belonged to bacteriocin type S3/P0:ribotype A , and shared the same CHEF profile . |
| 21 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 22 | She pushed it back , and wiped the same hand on the Beatrix Potter apron Harriet had made her for her birthday . |
| 23 | I was just going out when a man came in and asked the same question . |
| 24 | A few other Labour MPs lent support , and met the same fate — notably Charles Trevelyan , last of the surviving ex-UDC Liberals in the Parliamentary Party . |
| 25 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 26 | Check to see that they are secure and looped the same way on each half of the kite . |
| 27 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |
| 28 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 29 | Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times . |
| 30 | Stupidly , the English followed us and made the same mistake . |