Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 He told me he 'd said much the same to you . ’
2 I tried to say that I understood , that I 'd felt much the same way when I lost Jess .
3 Although various thinkers before him had formulated much the same basic principle of utility as basic to ethics none had used it so systematically as the basis for rethinking all moral and social arrangements .
4 Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing .
5 He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’
6 A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point .
7 Well , that was natural ; only a short time ago , when Rick Lawrence was the quarry , Melissa had felt exactly the same .
8 She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself .
9 Robyn had thought much the same on numerous occasions but she was n't about to give him the satisfaction of letting him know that .
10 He 'd been back again the following weekend , and he had had just the same unsettling effect on her .
11 She had had precisely the same expensive education as her friend and would never concede that she was not as clever .
12 They had used exactly the same methodology as that employed to reach the results at Dounreay and Sellafield .
13 As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day .
14 Last night , the old man had seemed much the same as ever , but in daylight the effect of the intervening twenty years was cruelly apparent .
15 It had entailed much the same fuss and anger as the now-and-then Sunday dinners : Rachaela recruited to peel vegetables , make crosses on the thousands of sprouts .
16 The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year .
17 However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands .
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