Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport . |
| 2 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 3 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 4 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 6 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 8 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 9 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 10 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 11 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 12 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 13 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 14 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 15 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 16 | You 'd adopted the same philosophy of pricing that . |
| 17 | She 'd seen the same thing happen to too many others in the music business , not because they 'd tried and failed to be carbon copies of Aurora Blake , but simply because they 'd tried to force a talent they simply did n't possess . |
| 18 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 19 | Then he kissed me , and for a moment I remembered a play we were in together , when we 'd done the same sort of kiss , starting with his hand under my chin and just our lips lightly together , and then developing into a full clinch ; but by the time we were deeply embraced I had forgotten the play and could think only that this was like coming home . |
| 20 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 21 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 22 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 23 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 24 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 25 | The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 26 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 27 | He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information . |
| 28 | And why she 'd reacted the same way yesterday evening when Jake had started questioning her about her private life . |
| 29 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 30 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |