Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [adv] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't maybe do the ploughing and that but if you were out spreading dung you or neeps you 'd to just the same as the men and the the man may man might be getting maybe about twenty pound in the half a year and the boys maybe only getting twelve or something like that . |
| 2 | CHAIRMAN Sir Peter Parker was doing his best , but the 1980s opened with much the same worries of insecurity over government policy , lack of investment , and working practices which harked back to the old company rules . |
| 3 | They were just poling away and Matt shouted ‘ Hey , fellers , cut ’ but they did n't take any notice and I remember thinking maybe they 're testing the rope to see if it works , and Matt and I turned at just the same moment and saw where the Indians were heading us — straight into a pile of rocks and foaming water — and I knew the rope must have broken or something . |
| 4 | What is more , careful examination of its proportions has revealed that it belonged to precisely the same species of cat that was later domesticated in Egypt . |
| 5 | The two successive episodes of Northern Hemisphere ice-sheet collapse began at precisely the same time as the climate shifts that are recorded in the Greenland ice core ( within the cited uncertainty ) . |
| 6 | The timing of these changes and the details of the structures adopted varied between the countries comprising the United Kingdom , but ‘ as a service provider , local government in Scotland developed at broadly the same pace as local government in England and Wales ’ ( Page 1983:43 ; cf. foster et al. |
| 7 | The post-1979 managerial emphasis in central administration was not wholly new : indeed , it started from much the same principle as Fulton — that civil servants needed to adopt a more business-like approach and drew upon a number of Fulton 's ideas about departmental organization ( see Chapters 1 and 2 ) . |
| 8 | With rents normally frozen at an obsolete level , entry fines were either certain , or , if technically arbitrary at the will of the lord , required by custom to be reasonable , which amounted to much the same thing . |
| 9 | The equally earnest Anglo-French Declaration of 1918 promising the Arabs of former Ottoman colonies their independence if they supported the Allies against the Turks fell into much the same category , although it was not a promise that was intended to be kept . |
| 10 | This is directly relevant to labouring class poetry : Robert Dodsley , later a footman , and John Bancks had both been weavers and their first works appeared at almost the same time as Stephen Duck 's . |
| 11 | The exception is an instructive one , because the Irish priests lived at much the same social and economic level as their flock ; they held their communities together and sustained their faith in a way that only Dissenting ministers in Wales and remoter parts of England were able to do . |
| 12 | However , it is doubtful whether state pensions policies were the prime cause of this decline since it continued at much the same rate after 1948 as it had done before . |
| 13 | Other themes reappeared at approximately the same time , but from quite different sources . |