Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | You chose to play the same game . |
| 32 | They , indeed , were the first animals to master flight and they did so some two hundred million years before birds managed to do the same thing . |
| 33 | I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ? |
| 34 | And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth . |
| 35 | The Politburo , meeting on 17 December , welcomed the agreement as ‘ historic ’ ; and Soviet public opinion , according at least to some rapidly-conducted opinion polls , appeared to take the same view . |
| 36 | Children learned to make the same response ( X ) to the visual stimuli A and B , and a different response ( Y ) to stimulus C. ( for some subjects X and Y were different verbal labels , for others they were different hand movements . ) |
| 37 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 38 | Each Holy Roman Emperor , the supreme example of an elected monarch , had to accept the same kind of limitations when he was chosen by the imperial electors . |
| 39 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 40 | Although Howard did n't actually have to come face to face with Brando , they had to share the same set . |
| 41 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |
| 42 | The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians . |
| 43 | The Sunday School sat in the North Aisle and everyone had to take the same seat week by week . |
| 44 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 45 | Both Ken and Hugh Paddick just had to feel the same way . |
| 46 | But diversifying companies found it much harder to exploit economies of scale and scope in these new fields — usually , says Mr Chandler , because they failed to make the same kind of first-mover investments they had made in their primary businesses . |
| 47 | However the front end of the Ballymena triple failed to produce the same consistency in the second half of the game , otherwise it may well have been a different story . |
| 48 | He had already become dependent on Richard Arkwright [ q.v. ] for funds ( a loan of £10,000 in 1788 ) but the prosperity of muslins now evaporated , while Oldknow failed to achieve the same mastery of technical perfection in fine-cotton spinning . |
| 49 | We tended to have the same meal on the same day of the week : roast on Sunday , cold meat on Monday , a steak-and-kidney pie or pudding on Tuesday , stew on Wednesday , salt beef on Thursday , fish on Friday and toad-in-the-hole on Saturday . |
| 50 | The bachelor wanted to ask the same question , but he said nothing . |
| 51 | They they tended to say the same thing as the government , erm but recently Tory motions , in this council , have started to say the opposite of the government f for reasons which remain obscure to me and this is just another example . |
| 52 | But I intended to follow the same course of action as I had over the earlier incident : to say nothing until he gave me an opening . |