Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 To have released Meehan from seven years of wrongful imprisonment , recommended a free pardon for him , and then to have arrested and charged Waddell for the same crime would have required a greater degree of resolution than either of them possessed .
2 ‘ Look here ! ’ exclaimed Peter at the same moment .
3 The Canadian analysis confirmed the findings of a recent US General Accounting Office study that found prices for the same drug to be higher in the United States than in Canada .
4 He harrowed hell with the same spiritual vigour with which he had overturned the tables of the money-changers in the temple , and the faithful dead were set free .
5 In June 1989 another Soviet submarine caught fire in the same area , and this time Norwegian scientists reported evidence of a small radioactive leak .
6 A former Armed Forces Minister , Maj. Umaru Djalo , who had served under President Luis de Almeida Cabral , who had been overthrown in 1980 by the coup bringing President Joao Bernardo Vieira to power , sought asylum at the same time .
7 Tall and elegant , her silver-grey hair styled into a smooth bob , she stood in the doorway and coolly surveyed Rachel with the same steady , grey-eyed gaze of her son .
8 It was she who , commenting on the Sharon Tate murder in August 1969 , said ‘ Dig it , first they killed those pigs , then they ate dinner in the same room with them , then they even shoved a fork into a victim 's stomach !
9 She affected Luke in the same way as he did her .
10 They also needed to be extended to permit inspectors to examine aircraft of a similar type to the one involved in an accident and to establish whether they also showed signs of the same sort of failure .
11 In the 1970s , genetic engineering made it possible to clone human insulin genes in micro-organisms which secreted insulin with the same structure as natural human material .
12 The French pressure group " Nature Environment " lobbied congress with the same demand .
13 Using 3½× ¾in wooden slats resting on battens , I made spacers from the same wood , and glued these to the battens .
14 Also sentenced to 20 years and fined $4,700,000 on the same charge was a former Secretary of State for the Armed Forces , Lt. Gen. Manuel Antonio Cuervo Gómez .
15 Customers of the rival Lambeth Water Company , which took its water from the upriver source of Thames Ditton and which served houses in the same London streets , suffered only a sixth of their risk .
16 For example , in schools where all the teachers followed guidelines in the same way , the impact was positive .
17 He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire .
18 All of these began work in the same week as the first Kindertransporte were given the go-ahead .
19 I have yet to come across another dog who began life in the same way Sadie did which has now successfully integrated into society .
20 He equated a lone tree with a lonely person , and paired trees in the same way that he paired humans .
21 TWO young golf partners hit holes-in-one at the same hole on the same round .
22 In addition , one could argue ( though this might not meet with unanimous agreement within the experimental community ) that repeated experiments with the same subjects indicate that conformity with SEU behaviour increases with repetition .
23 The employee 's contribution is therefore £1,284.40 and roughly equates to the sum of the Class 2 and Class 4 contributions paid by a self employed person on the same income .
24 The Department of the Environment ( DoE ) says that each individual transfer need not require a transfer document and repeated removals of the same waste by the same contractor ( multiple transfers ) may be covered under a single document for up to one year .
25 A further two female family members , both siblings from the 3rd generation , who required surgery for the same condition are now reported .
26 So his strategy made sense at the same time as it seemed wantonly ruinous .
27 Boy was not surprised at the kind of sex they had , because he had already learnt never to assume that people made love in the same way as they talked .
28 Icarus team leader David Lewis took part in the same jump .
29 There was , of course , a diversity of tenures — so much so that it can never be assumed that the customs of any two manors were identical , or even similar , unless perhaps they formed part of the same feudal honour , for example the barony of Lewes in Sussex , which had evolved a set of common customs .
30 However , recall of the preceding clause ( clause 2 ) varied depending on whether or not that clause formed part of the same sentence as the most recent clause .
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