Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] in the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | Or those voracious fish-eaters , otters , have been seen to play in the same pool as the salmon , fish who would normally flee from the presence of such a competent and fearsome predator . |
| 32 | The difficulty appears to me to be that there are too many people in the business seeking to compete in the same areas of demand , without any very great clarity about the sources of their own competitive advantages . |
| 33 | In explanation Van Valen put forward what he termed the Red Queen 's hypothesis , named after the Lewis Carroll character who found it took all the running one can do to keep in the same place . |
| 34 | Whoever threw that orange and that 50p deserve to die in the same M3 pile-up as Johnny Rogan : they would n't be missed . |
| 35 | But the sailors in the northern hemisphere — the part of the earth north of the Equator — realised that there was one star which always seemed to stay in the same place — the Pole Star . |
| 36 | A high turnover of newcomers does not have a serious effect on the community if a substantial group of native families remain rooted in the same spot , but if over the years it is the oldest families that are emigrating then the parish structure will be unstable . |
| 37 | " You never seem to appear in the same gown twice running . |
| 38 | Fundamentally however , all objects such as ‘ chapters ’ , ‘ sections ’ , ‘ entries ’ , ‘ acts ’ and ‘ scenes ’ , ‘ cantos ’ etc. seem to behave in the same way : they are incomplete in themselves , and often nest hierarchically . |
| 39 | This may or may not entail living in the same house . |
| 40 | Hunt , who had occasionally had to sleep in the same bed as his father , found nothing alarming in this until Minton , who had put his arm around the younger man , began moving it slowly down his chest . |
| 41 | Moreover the provisions of section 2(1) ( a ) also seem to point in the same direction . |
| 42 | Sure , there are differences , they 've got this one-eyed machine and so on , but basically it 's the same thing , and we even tell them it 's going to end in the same way with the raft capsizing . |
| 43 | ‘ All who were not present when [ the formula ] was agreed reacted in the same way against it , and felt that it would be read by the whole country as a capitulation on the part of the Government to the threat of a General Strike . ’ |
| 44 | But if , by sheer coincidence , all the molecules just happened to move in the same direction at the same moment , the hand would move . |
| 45 | Dr Ramey also explains that when couples are together for some time their hormone levels often begin to co-ordinate in the same way , so regular sex — say on Saturday nights — mean you tune into each other 's hormone levels . |
| 46 | Auxiliary need tends to occur in the same syntactic environments as at all , ever and any , which are typically found in so-called non-assertive sentences . |
| 47 | It is true that the shareholders would make an impact if they were to agree to vote in the same way , but this will usually involve the costs of educating and obtaining the co-operation of other shareholders being borne by individual activist members , and these are likely to outweigh the benefits that will be captured by them , since any increase in the value of the company attributable to intervention will be distributed among the shareholders as a whole . |
| 48 | But the overlap in dates — Tolkien 's book began to appear in the same year as Lucky Jim — is fortuitous , not significant , and the overlap in time was not a collision of rival forces , rather the side-by-side running of parallel tracks . |
| 49 | It 's not yet old enough to have become corrupted in the same way as the nuclear industry , that Fifties wunderkind gone bad . |
| 50 | But we all get changed in the same room when we 're at concerts . |
| 51 | The proposition is that had these four countries remained outside the EC , their intra- trade in manufactures would have developed in the same way as their extra-trade . |
| 52 | Although these insects ' hearing organs are rather like our eardrums , they do not necessarily respond to sound in the same way . |
| 53 | ‘ I have three children and even though I do not have a job at present , they will never have to suffer in the same way as the children of Somalia . ’ |
| 54 | They might have sat in the same prison cell as he was sitting in now . |
| 55 | Tamas had attempted to stand in the same constituency in the 1985 general election , but had been thwarted by what he had alleged to be communist manipulation of the candidate selection process [ see p. 33812-13 ] . |
| 56 | Today the president , Mrs Macpherson , in between gracefully shaking hands with each new arrival and presenting her to Mrs MacDonald , decided that she was nothing but a vulgar upstart , and she trembled with suppressed irritation at having to stand in the same receiving line with her . |
| 57 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 58 | The real problem is that there are situations where negative pecuniary externalities exist , and this means that co-operative R&D ventures may end up doing less R&D than independent firms would have done in the same setting . |
| 59 | I tried to work out what my father would have done in the same circumstances and came to the conclusion that he would have taken what he so often called ‘ a bold step ’ . |
| 60 | ‘ I told you to keep going in the same direction . |