Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1961 it was already overwhelmingly the nation 's ‘ main activity ’ in the evening , and the BBC study establishing that fact produced much the same figures when repeated in 1975 ( BBC , 1976 ) . |
| 2 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 3 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 4 | As I have suggested , up to a generation ago a common form of life united sixth-form and university English , regardless of whether their orientation was ‘ Oxford ’ or ‘ Cambridge ’ , since the latter made much the same assumptions about literacy and competence as the former . |
| 5 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 6 | If we used only the same newspapers then we would miss new developments which added to the range , while if we did add to the sample then we were not comparing like with like . |
| 7 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 8 | Transmission was by reverse-battery polarity , a simple yet efficient way of ensuring that dots and dashes used exactly the same voltage . |
| 9 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 10 | Evelyn took a deep breath and drew exactly the same H as before . |
| 11 | A cross-bred boar was reared and fed indoors in a pen , under identical conditions to a domestic pig , and the meats from the two carcasses tasted exactly the same . |
| 12 | It looked and tasted exactly the same as the previous day 's meal which I had sampled in the Superintendent 's office — a medium-hot vegetable curry containing a mixture of root and leafy vegetables . |
| 13 | She was n't going to let Dana provoke her ; she weighed exactly the same as her twin and always had . |
| 14 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 15 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 16 | Erm and his claim that in fact the regional draft regional guidance er that has emerged is consistent with this alteration , is not really surprising since the same parties drew up the same document . |
| 17 | I built up the same sort of profile about the shipbuilder . |
| 18 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 19 | Their forefingers imitated the movements of the pen , looping and daubing across the table-top , while their lips mouthed silently the same slow words . |
| 20 | This Government 's record , as well as that of our predecessors who pursued precisely the same policy , shows some success in delivering the objective that both parties have espoused — reduced tobacco consumption . |
| 21 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 22 | ( 1 ) Waqar Younis shared exactly the same ball with England prospect Martin Bicknell only last year when they played for Surrey . |
| 23 | I experienced exactly the same difficulty with my Panasonic printer when , like William , I upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word 2 . |
| 24 | That women writers all suffered the same disadvantages , entertained approximately the same ambitions , and approached their writing out of basically the same experiences is manifestly untrue . |
| 25 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 26 | And she went through the same circum got exactly the same ending . |
| 27 | They fulfilled rather the same role as extern sisters in contemplative convents today . |
| 28 | In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked . |
| 29 | The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms . |
| 30 | They received much the same reaction as we did . |