Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless the Hena villagers , in their ordinary lives , led much the same sort of existence as the Goigama villagers . |
| 2 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 3 | The opposition leader , Mr Vaclav Havel , made much the same point about the new Prime Minister by stating that he had failed to attract much attention over two years in government office . |
| 4 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 5 | Since Eliot 's family was of West Country provenance , he retained all the more interest in that region and in minority cultures , as I have mentioned . |
| 6 | Transmission was by reverse-battery polarity , a simple yet efficient way of ensuring that dots and dashes used exactly the same voltage . |
| 7 | Tolkien said that he ‘ disliked ’ Shakespeare ‘ cordially ’ , but he used exactly the same phrase of allegory too , where it concealed an opinion of some subtlety . |
| 8 | Oh yes , erm I went to a comprehensive co-educational school and found exactly the same thing . |
| 9 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 10 | This is not necessarily so : the US used roughly the same amount of energy each year from 1973 to 1985 , while its gross domestic product grew by more than a third . |
| 11 | This Government 's record , as well as that of our predecessors who pursued precisely the same policy , shows some success in delivering the objective that both parties have espoused — reduced tobacco consumption . |
| 12 | The obscure and the struggling got just the same treatment . |
| 13 | ( 1 ) Waqar Younis shared exactly the same ball with England prospect Martin Bicknell only last year when they played for Surrey . |
| 14 | I experienced exactly the same difficulty with my Panasonic printer when , like William , I upgraded to Windows 3.1 and Word 2 . |
| 15 | When in 1967 E. R. Leach made exactly the same point on the BBC , there was a national uproar with bishops and pundits of all kinds fulminating in the newspapers against the impiety of the idea , in much the same way that they had done against Engels almost a hundred years before . |
| 16 | And she went through the same circum got exactly the same ending . |
| 17 | They fulfilled rather the same role as extern sisters in contemplative convents today . |
| 18 | In 1985 , Anthony Burgess , perhaps even more controversially , explored much the same territory in The Kingdom of the Wicked . |
| 19 | The Council for Civil Liberty , which later became the National Council for Civil Liberty , fulfilled much the same function for mainly middle-class people interested in this subject , and worried by the threat made by fascism to cherished freedoms . |
| 20 | They received much the same reaction as we did . |
| 21 | Russians and Tatars , it was found , were distributed in a broadly similar manner in the occupational hierarchy , received approximately the same remuneration , and were active in socio-political life in virtually the same proportions . |
| 22 | I telephoned Frank and adopted exactly the same technique . |
| 23 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2% to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5% to £30.9bn . |
| 24 | The underlying picture , which excludes oil and erratic items such as aircraft parts and precious stones , told broadly the same story exports were up 5.2pc to £25.7bn and imports climbed 5pc to £30.9bn . |
| 25 | His thick blond hair , deep blue eyes and effortless charm had probably captivated the hearts of a host of women that evening , but as Becky assumed that every girl received exactly the same treatment , she avoided allowing herself to be flattered by him . |
| 26 | When you first came in , I would have said you were small , but when you stood beside Terry you seemed exactly the same height , and she 's five feet six . |
| 27 | The North Korean President , Kim Il Sung , rejected later the same month a proposal for a Korean commonwealth put forward on Sept. 11 , 1989 , by the South Korean President , Roh Tae Woo [ see p. 36892 ] , saying that it would perpetuate division . |
| 28 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 29 | Gertrude Stein expressed much the same idea when she wrote , ‘ Picasso in his early Cubist pictures used printed letters as did Juan Gris to force the painted surface to measure up to something rigid and the rigid thing was the printed letter . ’ |
| 30 | The evolution of opera in Spain from court entertainments , play-music and so on , followed much the same course as in France — with Caldéron , who allowed ample scope for music in his plays , taking the role of Molière . |