Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 31 | Nicholas Edwards at the Welsh Office , George Younger at the Scottish Office , and Mrs Thatcher herself had remained in the same posts since May 1979 . |
| 32 | With Lord Hailsham 's retirement as Lord Chancellor in 1988 , Mrs Thatcher alone had remained in the same post and only Peter Walker , George Younger , and Sir Geoffrey Howe had been in the Cabinet continuously . |
| 33 | Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began . |
| 34 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 35 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 36 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 37 | In their different ways both Tom and Emilia had alluded to the same experience ; and before that experience she was utterly virgin . |
| 38 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 39 | By contrast , palaeontology had increased over the same periods , from 14 to 25 , not quite doubling . |
| 40 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
| 41 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 42 | He and Moran had fought in the same flying column in the war . |
| 43 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 44 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 45 | Amazingly , they all had lived on the same street , and all had lived what one of these illustrious club-handlers estimated as a ‘ good wedge from one another ’ . |
| 46 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 47 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 48 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 49 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 50 | Because his rights as a tenant were protected and because in any case the university did n't wish to be seen turfing out an elderly man whose family had lived in the same cottage for five generations , we left him in peace and build around him , as it were , expecting him perhaps to move elsewhere or maybe to pass away . |
| 51 | A dépot des archives was set up in 1688 ; while the Marquis de Torcy ( Louis 's last Foreign Minister ) had begun about the same time the creation of a rudimentary Press bureau . |
| 52 | Twelve years ago , he said , President Ronald Reagan had stood at the same podium and said if the national debt were stacked in $1,000 bills , ‘ the stack would reach 67 miles into space . |
| 53 | An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way . |
| 54 | SHITO-RYU Hot on the heels of Funakoshi from Okinawa came Kenwa Mabuni , who had studied under the same master , but who also had two other teachers , named Itosu and Higaonna . |
| 55 | The way he had misled her , Blanche thought , was heinous enough if his loyalty had lain with the same country . |
| 56 | His home had burned with the same anger that the men responsible had felt , the anger which Carrefour had striven to purge himself of . |
| 57 | Marriage between a blood son and an adopted daughter who had nursed at the same breast would be incestuous , haram — forbidden . |
| 58 | The State Council and the Council of Ministers , acting upon a recommendation made by the central committee of the ruling Bulgarian Communist party ( BCP ) on Dec. 29 , had published on the same day a joint resolution " condemning all actions which curtail the right to a free choice of name , to freedom of religion , and also the right of everyone — while formally recognizing and using the Bulgarian language as the official language — to speak other languages in their day-to-day communication and to observe their customs " . |
| 59 | ‘ People got married with the same sense of cultural duty that people today ( often the same people ) get divorced , ’ according to the novelist Malcolm Bradbury , ‘ You owed it to yourself and to the times … |