Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
2 | The drawback is the cost of insisting that everyone goes for the same type of equipment . |
3 | In many households it is conventional for everyone to retire at the same time , and to re-emerge simultaneously in the morning , with scant toleration being shown to individuals who do not conform . |
4 | Christian Democrats voted by 66 to 28 to accept the Tories as ‘ allied members ’ , allowing them to sit in the same group as the Christian Democrats in the Strasbourg Euro-parliament from May 1 . |
5 | But even if we did have some such reason — even if we thought it slightly more natural for right-handed people , who form the majority , to drive on the right — our reasons for wanting everyone to drive on the same side would still be much stronger . |
6 | We might , therefore , expect them to work in the same sort of way as the visual system . |
7 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |
8 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
9 | ‘ I lived in the same house as him once . |
10 | If it is not permissible to take into account what was said by the Financial Secretary , I remain of the same view . |
11 | I sit in the same seat as before , just by the window . |
12 | Out of each battle , when the person dies , his replacement — his ghost-appears in the same tinted colour and keeps the unit up to complement . |
13 | But then I found in the same week in the relatively liberal UK magazine Time Out several references to women as ‘ chicks ’ and ‘ broads ’ . |
14 | And I sleep with the same Jew 's son , Ginny thought , whenever I can . |
15 | And Colin had his done about the same time . |
16 | I came at the same time as the Sweeper came for I saw him standing by this very cage in clothes the people wear and not in Keeper-clothes such as he began to wear afterwards . ’ |
17 | ‘ I came in the same van as someone called Gleeson , ’ said Marcus . |
18 | And Graham claimed : ‘ Frank McLintock was a marvellous skipper — I should know because I played in the same team with him . |
19 | This time lag , however , dies not always occur , as I show in the same study , and we are not in a situation to make the kind of general assumption made by Morgan and Engels . |
20 | I look in the same direction to account for the charming note ‘ Granovsky has got a bit out of hand ’ . |
21 | pBLcat2 and wild type oligo I constructs from the same experiments are shown for direct comparison . |
22 | ROBERT SAM ANSON 's ‘ The Man Who Shot JFK ’ ( February ) was the first of many articles I read on the same subject — but I kept returning to his time and time again . |
23 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
24 | ‘ I get about the same as the others . ’ |
25 | ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character . |
26 | Surely someone moving toward the light ought to measure it traveling at a higher speed than someone moving in the same direction as the light ; yet the experiment showed that both observers would measure exactly the same speed . |
27 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
28 | And I draw on the same manual of environmental appraisal that erm Mr has mentioned in in his evidence , the Department of Transport 's manual . |
29 | I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines ; I have obtained cigarettes , toffee , scent , and other things that I dislike by the same machinery ; I have weighed myself with sublime results ; and this sense not only of the healthiness of popular things , but of their essential antiquity and permanence is still in possession of my mind . |
30 | But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression . |