Example sentences of "[vb past] much 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 | 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 " . |
| 7 | In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They received much the same reaction as we did . |
| 10 | Maurice Raynal , although less extreme and volatile in his thought than Apollinaire , adopted much the same idealist view while realizing that abstraction was not the end or goal of Cubist painting . |
| 11 | The most popular form of reading among the literate poor was , as Dr Vincent has pointed out , one which told much the same tales as did the oral tradition . |
| 12 | The bed had been stripped , of course , but apart from that everything seemed much the same . |
| 13 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 14 | The proceedings for the four families followed much the same pattern . |
| 15 | The second day 's play followed much the same pattern of the first , the difference being Humphreys Davies ' three set victory over Lisa Albano . |
| 16 | The evolution of opera in Spain from court entertainments , play-music and so on , followed much the same course as in France — with Caldéron , who allowed ample scope for music in his plays , taking the role of Molière . |
| 17 | Unable to accept concessions in negotiation , Law now saw much the same deal offered in public by the Liberals themselves , when Asquith announced an Amending Bill to satisfy Ulster 's fears of Home Rule with a period of exclusion . |
| 18 | McFarlane , who in his more sober Methodist way felt much the same , tried to explain it at the hearings . |
| 19 | Noreen felt much the same so it was with great relief that for the New York engagement they could at least travel in from Queen 's each day and sleep in their own beds at night . |
| 20 | He felt much the same sensation now as he searched around for a fresh foothold . |
| 21 | Audiences felt much the same way . |
| 22 | Everyone connected with the play felt much the same way . |
| 23 | Val Orford told me he felt much the same way . |
| 24 | Michael Codron — who shared his work with another producer Donald Albery , a man who had totally different ideas from his own — felt much the same way . |
| 25 | Pat herself felt much the same way about that after Ken 's death . |
| 26 | I felt much the same way about Posh Porky as Grandpa did about Mrs Salmon . |
| 27 | He looked much the same as he did later , with a T-shirt and his 5000 volt haircut . |
| 28 | However , by 1984 a stream of continental ecologists were visiting FoE 's headquarters and appearing at conferences to remark that , so far as they were concerned , the trees looked much the same in Britain as they did in West Germany . |
| 29 | She looked much the same herself . |
| 30 | The nurses looked much the same , although , of course hair styles had changed dramatically . |