Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Smith , once everyone 's favourite , looks like assuming the same well worn cloak . |
| 2 | It was unanimous last time and it looks like going the same way this time , especially after Joe Punter saw the new design in the press . |
| 3 | Frank Gray flopped all too quickly when his predecessor might have succeeded in taking the same squad to safety . |
| 4 | They are there because their ancestors succeeded in doing the same . |
| 5 | Security 's being tightened up around the breeding pens … but staff are committed to maintaining the same easy access to the birds for visitors to the trust . |
| 6 | 1823 " Now direct the Collector to pay Twenty pounds Sterling as the sum formerly stented , and to be appropriated for the suppression of thieves — of which sum the Collector will be discharged on paying the same to Mr. McAlpine … for his outlay on his dwelling house . " |
| 7 | And what would you say to a fourteen year old girl who might be watching this who might think of doing the same thing ? |
| 8 | Here there will be a multiplicity of arrangements with the private sector ranging from guaranteeing the same price as the 1992–3 DSS spend , to tighter downward pressure on prices exerted through tendering , to authorities where little or no control over placement costs will be exercised at all . |
| 9 | ‘ It is possible they operate individually but are connected by having the same contacts , for instance a dealer in Essex or Ireland , ’ said Det Sgt Elston . |
| 10 | No Act of Parliament ever repealed the privilege of sanctuary within the girth of Holyrood Abbey , but defaulting Abbey Lairds no longer occupied the area where Thomas de Quincey knew he was safe from his creditors and Walter Scott seriously thought of doing the same thing . |
| 11 | In addition , the East Tullos test bed has now been fully approved for Olympus engine testing and is well advanced in achieving the same status for RB211 engines . |
| 12 | One thing I know for certain is that after completing the first pitch it was only my experience as a climber to the lower E grades that got me through , and I wondered how a non-climber might have got on using the same information . |
| 13 | You only have to think of the otherwise incomprehensible behaviour of someone who hails a cab with a flailing gesture of the outstretched arm and who , having failed , then feels it necessary to provide an account of what happened by using the same hand to smooth down the hair . |
| 14 | It could have been avoided by having the same verb in ss.18 and 20 or by the Lords in Wilson deciding that " cause " and " inflict " covered the same ground . |
| 15 | Chief Inspector Buchanan walked in wearing the same grey suit followed by the wooden-faced Sergeant Warden . |
| 16 | As Hind III digested λ DNA was added to P. anserina genomic DNA before Bal 31 treatment , the kinetic of exonuclease activity could be easily assessed by probing the same blot with λ DNA ( data not shown ) . |
| 17 | There is disintegration when no common morality is observed , and history shows that the loosening of moral bonds is often the first stage of disintegration , so that society is justified in taking the same steps to preserve its moral code as it does to preserve its Government and other essential institutions . |
| 18 | Even the Oxford Museum was not free from Italian influence and ‘ Scott would be throwing away his best chance ’ if he let himself be debarred from doing the same . |
| 19 | I find that the weather and seasonal changes play a large part in my ideas about landscape and I shall persist in stalking the same places throughout the seasons and years . |
| 20 | But that time must be spent in tackling the same issues identified by Bill Clinton . |
| 21 | I 'm sure he 's going to carry on showing the same brand of outstanding leadership he has shown with England for some years . ’ |
| 22 | Of course , if you 're more comfortable in a lounge suit or twin-set and pearls , prefer eggs and bacon for breakfast , insist on using the same boring toothbrush day and night , and like to take baths alone , then you can go to the Hilton . |
| 23 | And now I felt like doing the same . |
| 24 | Blanche felt like doing the same . |
| 25 | Condition ( 1 ) can be fulfilled by requiring the same work-force to work all shifts in a rotating shift system . |
| 26 | Or , it may come from possessing the same ethnic origin . |
| 27 | Pre-literate peoples not only agree with modern taxonomists about species , but in at least some cases agree in identifying the same higher categories . |
| 28 | I do n't seem to fed the same urge to wander that I used to . ’ |
| 29 | A temporary ‘ repair ’ was effected by installing the same files in a differently named subdirectory , leaving the originals on the disk as redundant disk space . |
| 30 | Fortunately I am not driven to this expedient that often , because I have many other stratagems that I have devised for attaining the same object . |