Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years 1961 – 63 were undoubtedly one of the peaks in the special relationship , and the successors of Kennedy and Macmillan in the 1960s failed to establish the same rapport . |
| 2 | However , Hirsch and Leff 's attempt to replicate this study , also reported in their book ( 1975 ) , failed to find the same degree of gross communication disorder as that claimed by Singer and Wynne . |
| 3 | Mazzin tried to impose the same treatment on us . |
| 4 | I think of the poetic neatness of the novel about the compulsive , enduring desire for a house of one 's own being composed only a few streets away from where someone with infinitely fewer resources tried to mobilise the same dream . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 6 | Lyn de Alwis now proposed to use the same technique to persuade captured wild elephants to walk quietly into the back of a truck . |
| 7 | ‘ Then you came into my life and tried to do the same thing ! |
| 8 | He promised to adopt the same approach to councillorship ‘ which has seen me through as a councillor for 20 years with 11 of these as county councillor . ’ |
| 9 | His Kent landscapes had contributed significantly to the success of his 1945 Roland , Browse and Delbanco exhibition , soon after which he tried to interest the same gallery in Edie Lamont 's work . |
| 10 | Windsor Crown Court heard that Carolyn Fellowes from Redditch tipped off the police after getting the man 's name from a baggage label as he tried to board the same flight as she was from Birmingham Airport . |
| 11 | A similar conclusion was reached by Gruenberg ( 1977 ) from a population study in Sweden , although further analysis of the same population failed to reach the same conclusion ( Rorsman et al . |
| 12 | She never seemed to wear the same fur coat twice . |
| 13 | It seemed to bear the same relationship to the country he was travelling through as Ptolemy 's view of the world to a satellite picture of the earth . |
| 14 | The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God . |
| 15 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 16 | Yet , somehow , in her secret heart , he never seemed to reach the same stature as Tyler Blacklock . |
| 17 | Moving seemed to require the same amount of breath as before , which was to say more than could be easily provided . |
| 18 | And the women seemed to knit the same kind of loops my mother did . |
| 19 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |
| 20 | The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles . |
| 21 | Indeed western European governments in general seemed to take the same view . |
| 22 | Women 's sub also happened to say the same thing . |
| 23 | The Brasserie was launched as a fully fledged operation expected to do the same level of business as L'Auberge from the start . |
| 24 | ‘ We agreed to do the same number of hours … ’ |
| 25 | She began to follow the same path that they had taken before . |
| 26 | We decided to use the same system that we used for hospitals , making referrals to team leaders in the same way that we do to consultants . |
| 27 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 28 | Rupert Murdoch decided to do the same thing with The Times . |
| 29 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 30 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |