Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] the same " in BNC.

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31 I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager .
32 Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock .
33 He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage .
34 I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead !
35 Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided .
36 And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end .
37 She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there !
38 Although many London pubs seemed to look the same when he first walked in , Dexter enjoyed collating the differences that set one apart from another .
39 I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all .
40 The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one .
41 He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information .
42 And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life .
43 And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did .
44 The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze .
45 Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies .
46 Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’
47 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
48 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
49 And I do n't know what it was but they all seemed to say the same , the visitors , they all used to say , you 've got lovely fruit here .
50 Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view .
51 As usual I just wished I 'd ordered the same as her : a bowl of smoked bacon and Roquefort cheese salad with garlic croutons .
52 Guido seemed to feel the same .
53 Drawing on North American experience , the Commission concluded that ‘ poor management was an important contributory factor to New York 's problems ’ , and sought to apply the same lessons here ( p. 2 ) .
54 His model and hero was his neighbour Mustafa Kenal Ataturk ; he strove to implement the same reforms in Iran as were being achieved in Turkey .
55 The magnitude of the enteroglucagon response elicited by deoxycholate was similar to that reported for a test breakfast , measured using the same assay system .
56 He got out and helped her from her seat , and turned to do the same for Dana .
57 It is important for national courts to use all proper aids to the interpretation of Community legal texts ( such as the preamble ) even if they are not accustomed or allowed to do the same in relation to their own national texts .
58 Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing .
59 Now he planned to do the same with the female cub , who had been given the most unleopard-like name of Harriet .
60 The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start .
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