Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the same [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded : |
| 2 | In conclusion , Italy and Sicily suffered from the same divisions and neighbourly jealousies as Old Greece , jealousies made more dangerous by racial friction and the threat of native risings ( cranky philosophical activists did not help ) . |
| 3 | In this they suffered from the same defects as the streltsy , the small force of regular infantry originally set up during Ivan the Terrible 's reign . |
| 4 | If the fish are obtained from the same area the chances are that they all came from the same parents . |
| 5 | An Armenian whose family came from Erzerum or Kars is neighbour to other Armenians whose parents or grandparents came from the same towns , just as Palestinians from Haifa — or from Mrs Zamzam 's village of Um Al-Farajh — now live in refugee camps next to those whose homes were in the same places , sometimes in the very same streets , in what was Palestine . |
| 6 | Although they spoke German and came from the same backgrounds as their charges , they were often young and inexperienced and unprepared for the demands of the work . |
| 7 | The Times , more restrained , came to the same conclusions : ‘ To most sensible , rational people , a verdict which depends on the evidence of a man like Mathews , in the circumstances in which he gave that evidence , can not be safe . ’ |
| 8 | Firms like ICI or Ford might , as in earlier years , have been able to build larger or more technically advanced sets for their own electricity supplies , but faced with the same shortages of steel and skilled men as the supply industry , they were now less inclined to branch out in this way , particularly as the BEA were selling electricity to them at prices based on historic costs , even though the new power stations were costing more . |
| 9 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 10 | She has had fifty governments since the end of the war , many of them dominated by the same personalities and the same political party . |
| 11 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 12 | The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona . |
| 13 | When I had done that , I touched over the same areas again to strengthen a colour or restate an edge or detail as I felt necessary . |
| 14 | I used to work with them before I finished at the same YTS scheme . |
| 15 | The borough MPs were very different from their county colleagues , and only thirty-seven of the eighty-six from English boroughs even lived in the same towns ; many were carpet-bagging lawyers , induced to stand at the last moment and at the expense of Central Office . |
| 16 | This perhaps was a feature of the Forest of Dean , where four holdings out of five could have been occupied by their owners ( who lived in the same townships ) and many belonged to men worth less than £2 . |
| 17 | At the start of NEP many of these papers collapsed for the same reasons that affected others . |
| 18 | Whereas Pleistocene geology was seen to be primarily concerned with stratigraphy and chronology , Butzer saw the need for a more comprehensive study of past environments and envisaged Pleistocene Geography as concerned with the natural environment and focused on the same themes of man and nature that are the concern of historical and contemporary geographies . |
| 19 | " A fresh action started on the same grounds as one struck out for failure to obey an " " unless " " order may be struck out as an abuse of the process of the court " ( see Bailey v Bailey [ 1983 ] 1 WLR 1129 at 1133 ) . |
| 20 | It has certainly not been the only movement , nor has it always taken the same form or led to the same conclusions . |
| 21 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 22 | We also knew of the same facies in Egypt and Israel . |
| 23 | Despite focusing on some rather special examples where creativity and psychosis co-existed in the same individuals , our analysis will inevitably lead us to consider whether in these particular persons their tendency to madness and their capacity for unusual originality of thought were indeed , in some fundamental sense , intimately connected . |
| 24 | A third balloon inflation and deflation resulted in the same events . |
| 25 | Here was a fellow human , Canadian , and Montrealer who went to the same movies and read the same papers as you or I. 1 . ) |
| 26 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 27 | We went to school together , went to the same dances and then she married a soldier during the war . |
| 28 | ‘ Well they were townies you know , ’ she finally says , ‘ and it looked to me that when townies hung out together they all dressed the same , did the same things , went to the same places and I was really different . |
| 29 | Okay , just about it now Okay , gon na ask each group what marks they 've given and why , now it 's not for the other team to justify it because it 's all a subjective thing but the thing is we 're hopefully marking them against the same criteria as everybody else because we 've all been in the same place and listened to the same things and read the same things , however , now we know obviously it does n't necessarily mean that everybody 's taken in the same things . |
| 30 | They laughed at the same things . |