Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Mandru , the Lady Nehushtah , Mandru 's exotic Ixibatabian wife , had male as well as female attendants , and all the Ixmaritians lived together in the same building , regardless of their gender . |
| 2 | The most surprising observation is that the spring bloom occurred almost at the same time in the Tromsø area and at Spitzbergen , approximately 10° further north . |
| 3 | Adomnan recalls in his biography of Columba , written a century after the saint 's death , that one day the monks became aware of a strange presence in one of their pastures ; this experience occurred again at the same time every evening . |
| 4 | The incidence of bridal pregnancy and bastardy rose significantly at the same time . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you think I 've lost a fortune only to see it salted away in the same nip-cheese fashion as before ? |
| 6 | That light came originally from the same source as Fenna 's fire , from the heart of the golden star , from the sun itself — but it was light crashing around space at speeds which defy relativity , rolling like waves , bouncing like particles , rebounding off the dead desert of the cold moon and hurled thence , down through nearly a quarter of a million miles , forced through the steadily slowly moving liquid molecules of solid glass which made the windows . |
| 7 | Under Resolution 45/226 , adopted unanimously on the same day , the Assembly also called for emergency relief for Sudan , noting " the continuing negative impact of persistent natural disasters and armed conflict " in the country . |
| 8 | I think it 's the odour of sanctity the atmosphere of a nice church and nice vicar and lots of people joined together with the same idea |
| 9 | The power axe , clenched in his mailed fist , still hewed away at the same small area in front of him , but for the life of him he could n't push himself into the space it liquefied , nor could he shift the weapon to left or to right , so firmly was his arm held by the hydra . |
| 10 | But one criticism made later in the same commentary drew attention to what was thought to be missing " above all , two things : one of them a sense of history , both a broad and more local framework within which the achievement of these schools can be placed and evaluated ; the other a sense of the actual texture of the schools themselves " ( Tizard et al. |
| 11 | The full-year result , announced coincidentally on the same day as its old foe Forte , which owns 69 p.c. of the ordinary shares , followed a first-half loss of £674,000 . |
| 12 | For convenience both notices may , if the local authority wish , he served together in the same document . |
| 13 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 14 | A further warning article followed shortly in the same paper . |
| 15 | Masonry developed traditionally at the same time as Norman England , but most of the buildings have been altered . |
| 16 | Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway . |
| 17 | The groups of women artists who met and worked collaboratively during the same period are less clearly referenced in standard texts . |
| 18 | The day which ended terribly at the presidential palace started badly at the same venue . |
| 19 | Wills make it clear that fathers and sons worked together in the same little workshop , and perhaps the women and girls helped occasionally . |
| 20 | That is quite an assignment for any historian in under 500 pages , and it is not Sir Ian 's fault if the reader often feels short-changed by being obliged to travel through so large a landscape guided always by the same question : what was the role of ‘ popular violence ’ in all this ? |
| 21 | The round table was still in the centre of the hall , littered surely with the same newspapers and magazines , old letters and circulars ; and the old settle was still leaning against the far wall . |
| 22 | The winger transferred to the left hand side of the field — unusual for a right-footed player , and also got in the way of Boyd as he broke forward in the same area . |
| 23 | This revolving of him in her mind led invariably to the same end , the same fear , that he would go away from Hilderbridge without her seeing him and then she would never see him again . |
| 24 | For a while it seemed that the whole black music scene had a fixation about penning songs with titles formed entirely around the same noun , Sam Cooke adding to his bank balance via ‘ Baby , Baby , Baby ’ ( 1963 ) while James Brown band singer Anna King and Bobby Byrd provides a classic of the same title during '64 . |
| 25 | Pension funds increased thirtyfold in size over the twenty-five years to 1985 ; insurance companies grew fourteenfold over the same period . |
| 26 | The plant flowers in late summer and early autumn on wood produced earlier in the same year . |
| 27 | Of course , some third world countries spent heavily on armaments , bought effectively from the same capitalist cartel who loaned the money . |
| 28 | He and Asquith even appeared together on the same platform . |
| 29 | From the evidence in city museums , artists among the early settlers brought their European attitudes with them too and , failing the innocent eye test , also failed to interpret the essence of their new found environment , while those who subsequently practised the new styles of modern art in the early decades of this century did so with the same little effect . |
| 30 | Just over half of those who retired prematurely did so at the same time as their redundancy . |