Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 2 | You 'd adopted the same philosophy of pricing that . |
| 3 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 4 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 5 | When most of the dancers had set off for home , and Lucy had given Josie reason to assume that she 'd done the same , she sat in one of the empty offices for a while and then returned to the wardrobe department . |
| 6 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 7 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 8 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there ! |
| 11 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life . |
| 15 | As usual I just wished I 'd ordered the same as her : a bowl of smoked bacon and Roquefort cheese salad with garlic croutons . |
| 16 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 17 | If he 'd shoot one person who challenged him , Marius Steen would do the same to anyone else he thought represented the same threat . |
| 18 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 19 | Not until 1859 , when he was forty-eight years old , did he publish it and even then he was driven to do so only because another younger naturalist , Alfred Wallace , working in Southeast Asia , had formulated the same idea . |
| 20 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 21 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 22 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 23 | Both rooms had received the same brutal searching treatment . |
| 24 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 25 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 26 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 27 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 28 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |
| 29 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 30 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |