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

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1 The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport .
2 However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne .
3 In his turn , Tran Van Hieu knelt to perform the same silent acts of obeisance as the older man , but after prostrating himself for the third time , he remained on his knees and to his children 's surprise began to pray aloud .
4 Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us .
5 I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream .
6 Childebert 's tax inspectors then tried to institute the same reforms in Tours , but Gregory claimed that the city was exempt , and related the history of exemption since the time of Chlothar I. However , if reorganization had not threatened Tours , it is doubtful whether we would have heard of the perfectly sensible arrangements at Poitiers , which suggest not only that taxation was normal in the Merovingian kingdom , but also that it could be organized efficiently , and so far as one can see , fairly .
7 When he moved to inflict the same beautiful torture on the twin globe she cried out , drowning in a riot of sensation .
8 ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’
9 Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck .
10 A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope .
11 Hardly aware of what she was doing , she tried to do the same , thankful that her shoes had soft soles .
12 I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 .
13 Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel .
14 ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing !
15 He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’
16 His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work .
17 Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport .
18 At the same time , our cleaning lady , an ex-bus conductress and union member , tried to join the same Streatham branch and was turned away because they were ‘ too busy ’ .
19 A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al .
20 I talked to the lady for some time and we seemed to like the same things , so I was pleased when their bid was the successful one .
21 She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice .
22 The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God .
23 It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth .
24 Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice .
25 Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock .
26 Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided .
27 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 .
28 And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did .
29 The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze .
30 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 .
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