Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 2 | I knew I looked so different that he would not recognize me , but I was afraid all the same . |
| 3 | Untrue , I daresay , but interesting all the same . ’ |
| 4 | Interesting all the same . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , but it is interesting all the same . |
| 6 | Yes yes but very interesting all the same . |
| 7 | Er , but it was interesting all the same . |
| 8 | Not often the first person , always the third person but authentic all the same . |
| 9 | In Holland in the early 1980s the same pattern was repeated with the Centrum Party . |
| 10 | Drawbacks are few , but typically niggling all the same . |
| 11 | We did n't really need a Christmas present after that but the encore , the intermezzo from Delius 's Fennimore and Gerda , was very welcome all the same . |
| 12 | But she 's still a damn good professional all the same . ’ |
| 13 | Surprising as it sounds , it is possible to have sex without testicles ; it may not be quite as much fun , but it is possible all the same , under certain circumstances . |
| 14 | No , I could not talk , but I was grateful all the same . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm grateful all the same . ’ |
| 16 | Basically , they grew out of a thought process which was perhaps a little too logical , but logical all the same , relating to works made with your hands : you can cut off the artist 's hands and still end up with something which is a product of the artist 's choice since , on the whole , when an artist paints using a palette he is choosing the colours . |
| 17 | I 've seen them at Pisa and Florence , they 're only large houses really , rather grand all the same , so much stone and ceiling , hard to keep warm in the winters . |
| 18 | The mind that had conjured up those designs had to be brilliant — annoying , devious , prone to flights of fancy — but brilliant all the same . |
| 19 | His voice was quiet , not like her own , which had been rising with every syllable , but he was angry all the same , she could feel it , even down the miles of telephone cable that separated them . |
| 20 | But it is important all the same to provide the game as well as the story . |
| 21 | He remembered a girl he had known once who used to say ‘ franchement ’ whenever she meant ‘ frankly ’ — rather a soupy girl , and far from frank , but consoling all the same on despairing Sundays , and she had made beautiful casseroles . |
| 22 | Perhaps far from criminal but unpleasant and hurtful all the same . |
| 23 | Leonard should be hopeless at fighting , with no fancy tricks , but courageous all the same . |
| 24 | But I was adamant all the same . ’ |
| 25 | Cornelius was too accomplished a performer to let his smugness show , but it was palpable all the same : he could not be caught out . |
| 26 | ‘ And so I wo n't ask too much about why you 're here , ’ said Calatin , looking hopeful all the same . |
| 27 | The place looked fortified , not as a grim walled castle but impregnable all the same , with thick walls and , in the centre of the square , unornamented two-storey building , a stocky tower from which arrows or muskets might have been shot or red-hot ploughshares hurled down on invaders . |
| 28 | It is no disrespect to Bohm 's achievement to say that his theory is pretty weird all the same . |
| 29 | No , but she is young all the same . |
| 30 | One of the citations succinctly sums it up : ‘ It is the Private Eye of the food industry : not always welcome , sometimes sensational , but very necessary all the same ’ . |