Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] in the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( However , Peter Burge , the former Australian batsman who was the ICC 's match referee throughout this series , said afterwards that there would have been time for one over if a wicket had fallen in the same Tufnell over . ) |
| 2 | When junior health minister Tim Yeo launched the Mansell report on services for people with learning difficulties with challenging behaviour a couple of months ago , he made the aside that perhaps his audience were wondering why there was need of such a report , given the work the King 's Fund had done in the same area over the years . |
| 3 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 4 | The Czechoslovak Communist leader , Klement Gottwald , who had died in the same year as Stalin and was embalmed like him and Lenin , suffered the indignity of springing a leak , loosing fluid , and slowly decomposing . |
| 5 | Two of his sisters and many of his relatives over three generations had died in the same way , indicating that the condition may be inherited . |
| 6 | Strangely , Gilkes , his predecessor , had died in the same manner , in the same area , in September , 20 years previously . |
| 7 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 8 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 9 | The 24-year-old buxom blonde who ‘ gave her favours freely to young village schoolboys ’ was told by Mr Justice Sheldon , ‘ If a man had behaved in the same way with girls of this age he would have ended up with a long prison sentence ’ . |
| 10 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |
| 11 | I felt a touch of the sinister that rules so many of the islands ; there was no reason to shiver in that warm spot , but I did , and experienced a slight sense of embarrassment , as though I had been intruding , thinking perhaps not of Tiare but of the great love all those years ago which had produced her : forty years ago when the water was cascading over the same cliff in just the same way as it had today , Princess Tiare 's mother and her lover had bathed in the same secret pool and later , perhaps , made love in the cave behind . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He and Moran had fought in the same flying column in the war . |
| 16 | Peter and Carol had lived in the same row of houses for 16 years . |
| 17 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |