Example sentences of "[verb] the same [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night .
2 The confidentiality claim met the same fate as the other arguments .
3 It met the same fate as its predecessors .
4 The new instrument seeks to skin the same cat but in a slightly different way .
5 As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party .
6 Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors .
7 It is not difficult to see why corporate crime has not received the same publicity as murder , robbery , theft , rape and so on — both in the mass media and in the study of crime .
8 ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’
9 The methods and their paraphernalia are all ‘ stageprops ’ , aids to contacting the same force and channelling the mind in that direction .
10 All in all , being an under sixteen-year-old mother has little official recognised status at all , even though this involves the same care and costs as for an older mother .
11 Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters .
12 The girls of the same families included in the formation by these direct relationships shared the same interests but were , in majority , beyond the immediate formative system .
13 We three shared the same interests and opinions , and spent the days and evenings very happily together .
14 Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did .
15 " Philip so honoured him " , wrote Roger of Howden , " that every day they ate at the same table , shared the same dish and a- night the bed did not separate them .
16 Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion .
17 He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features .
18 The rich , the good , the pretty , the blessed all shared the same fate as the poor , the bad , the ugly , the deprived .
19 They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool .
20 They shared the same paynote and were self-selected .
21 Rufus did not even know if animal bones shared the same names as those of humans .
22 Trams and buses henceforward shared the same Body and Paint shops , while a new Fitting shop was created in an adjacent building fronting on to the Coliseum .
23 ‘ This little oasis is a great pleasure to everyone in the area and it would be a travesty if it were ever to go the same way as everywhere else in the Newbury district — for commercial gain . ’
24 We do n't want the same to happen to us in the UK — to go the same way as the British motor or electronics industries have — and to prevent this we must make ourselves as lean , fit and efficient as possible ; able to compete with the Japanese on quality , service , delivery and price .
25 Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day .
26 Well you 're meant to go the same way as the clock goes and that means it 's you next .
27 I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny .
28 If no changes occur then repeat the same remedy and wait again .
29 Again , the TUC General Council made the same accusation when it met the Beveridge Committee seventeen years later : F.H .
30 What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom .
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