Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I returned to the tinker camp and sought out the same woman . |
| 2 | It looked and tasted exactly the same as the previous day 's meal which I had sampled in the Superintendent 's office — a medium-hot vegetable curry containing a mixture of root and leafy vegetables . |
| 3 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 4 | Evelyn took a deep breath and drew exactly the same H as before . |
| 5 | I telephoned Frank and adopted exactly the same technique . |
| 6 | I came into the G M B and heard exactly the same kind of derogatory comments about the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |
| 7 | He came over , shoved the piece of paper into my hand , and vanished down the same hole . |
| 8 | It is revealing that , in a very similar way , to be can be present or omitted in an actual non-finite clause where it signals the passive of a verb phrase although its presence is generally preferred : ( 48 ) Cromwell ordered the Abbot of Reading ( to be ) tried and executed immediately The same insertion is sometimes superficially possible for predicate qualifiers ; but in reality this indicates a main verb which is semantically compatible with the relation of either construction ; an example would be like ( or want ) which makes it possible for us to set ( 49 ) beside ( 8 ) : ( 49 ) Alastair likes his beef tea to be strong However , with most preceding verb phrases , such a change to the predicate qualifier construction will produce a result which is ungrammatical and may even present difficulties of interpretation : ( 50 ) ( a ) the children have kept the fish-tank clean : how have the children kept the fish-tank ? ( b ) the children have kept the fish-tank to be clean |
| 9 | They flew almost the same number of sorties ( some 2,600 each ) and lost nearly the same number of aircraft ( 72 with 431 and 74 with 434 ) , suffering virtually identical casualties . |
| 10 | Over the extended hand she looked up into the prince 's eyes , and saw there the same candid regard she had seen in his model ; yet the shafts that pierced into this boy 's inmost being were somewhere shuttered close , standing off all communion . |
| 11 | He had what was apparently a heart attack and died there the same day . ’ |
| 12 | In a moment he reappeared and did exactly the same . |
| 13 | They should be aware that Mr beat Mr Brown to the punch and did exactly the same thing a few months ago . |
| 14 | until she got onto that crossbar and then she just flew straight back and did exactly the same thing all over again and I just thought sod it ! |
| 15 | Thereafter tourism replaced travel , the masses were unleashed upon the Continent , package-tour operators and entrepreneurs got to work to ensure that everywhere from Zagreb to Zanzibar looked , felt , and smelt exactly the same , and the aeroplane turned Atlantic crossings and transworld flights into the merest commuting , as mechanical and regular and unremarkable as catching the 6.10 from Waterloo to Surbiton . |
| 16 | The beneficiaries lost their interests in ( say ) £100,000 worth of land , but received exactly the same interests in £100,000 of money . |
| 17 | Others have attempted a little more precision but floundered just the same . |