Example sentences of "[v-ing] the same [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 2 | It was like eating the same meal at every mealtime . |
| 3 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 4 | The correspondence problem is to identify specific portions of the changing image as representing the same object at different times . |
| 5 | Opening the same day at Emmerich are the geometric abstractions of Robert Caracciolo , a painter based in New York and Rome who was motivated to make the almost seven-foot-square works in this show after becoming intensely involved with the poetry of the sixteenth-century Spanish mystic St John of the Cross and with a young Spanish theologian of similar bent . |
| 6 | Ann said they kept both wanting the same thing at the same time . |
| 7 | Father Morrow said he would be shortly lodging the same application at Keighley County Court in the Liverpool fan 's home town . |
| 8 | Fr Morrow said he would soon be lodging the same application at Keighley County Court in Mr Bland 's home town . |
| 9 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 10 | We used a microcomputer software program ( ROOTS ) to identify and measure the length of individual roots within contemporaneous cohorts at each site , and subsequently to follow their fate by repeatedly measuring the same roots at each sampling date . |
| 11 | In 1728 , for example , while Alexander Legrand , the collector of Leith , enjoyed a place worth £ 100 per annum , William Gordon , the officer holding the same rank at Aberdeen , was paid £50 , while Hugh Baillie , the collector of Orkney , had to make do with a mere £30 per annum . |
| 12 | Max flicked his bow-tie with the index-finger of his right hand , before pointing the same finger at the figure of a man lying covered with a plastic sheet on the splashed grass beside the water 's edge . |
| 13 | But they were probably saying the same thing at the end of the 1960s after the Socialist Party of the day , the Federation de la Gauche Democrate et Socialiste , had won a mere 16.5 per cent of the vote in the 1968 general election and Gaston Deferre , their candidate in the following year 's presidential election had polled just 5 per cent . |
| 14 | refusing the help of family members and others who prepare " special " meals but having the same meals at the same time and in the same place as everyone else . |
| 15 | Increasingly Hick is having the same problem at county level as bowlers realise a potential flaw . |
| 16 | Although individual client executives tend to favour dealing with known consultants , if those consultants leave their firms , they are not necessarily then seen in the same light , or as having the same resources at their disposal . |
| 17 | I assumed whole group drama had to be about football hooligans on their way to a match or passengers in an aeroplane about to crash ; that there might be shades of difference , but that basically everybody would be doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 18 | As discussed in Chapters 3 and 5 , whole group work rarely means the whole class doing the same thing at the same time . |
| 19 | Look , we 're all doing the same thing at different |
| 20 | You know , er , and we 're still achieving the same job at a lot higher standard . |
| 21 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’ |
| 22 | The ideal balance sheet — with both sides showing the same figure at the end — produced the expression ‘ making ends meet , ’ in which ‘ meet ’ is used in its oldest sense of ‘ right and fitting ’ . |
| 23 | I am slightly irritated to find myself thinking the same thought at the same point every evening , but also rather comforted . |