Example sentences of "[vb past] the same [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The girls of the same families included in the formation by these direct relationships shared the same interests but were , in majority , beyond the immediate formative system .
2 We three shared the same interests and opinions , and spent the days and evenings very happily together .
3 Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion .
4 He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features .
5 Rufus did not even know if animal bones shared the same names as those of humans .
6 What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom .
7 Backbenchers mostly made the same points that they had made over a year earlier .
8 All local agreements up and down the country which it counted to eighty odds were all scrubbed and there was what you call a national agreement established to cover the whole of Scotland which meant the man in the remotest part of Scotland got the same wages and conditions as in as the man in Edinburgh or Glasgow or any big city .
9 We used the same criteria as the Booker Prize — namely the writer must be from either the UK , Ireland or the Commonwealth .
10 The next question used the same factors and asked how Ernst & Young compare to the respondent 's expectations .
11 What is more interesting is to discover how far these were due to industrialisation , and used the same methods and technology as were transforming industry .
12 Leonard Aldous used the same tools and made the same type of harness as his predecessors did in medieval times .
13 When a subsequent judgment study ( Groeger & Chapman , in preparation b ) was designed which used the same films as Study 4 , the opportunity was taken to include questions about the amount of fixed and variable information in the stimuli .
14 For all their liveliness of style any of the above national dances seen in one ballet resemble those in another because choreographers such as Petipa , Bournonville and Saint-Léon utilised the same steps and ports de bras again and again .
15 From 1968 , these schools received the same benefits as the Roman cathodic sector .
16 The earl of Huntingdon 's household , in 1564 , included two yeomen who received the same wages as gentlemen , i.e. 26s. 8d. per annum , and twenty-two more at £1 .
17 Although she was by now in her late thirties , she recognised the same symptoms as in her previous pregnancy .
18 She felt reassured from the article that other people suffered the same symptoms as she did , and could already identify her own propensity to jump to the conclusion that people looked down on her in the absence of any hard evidence .
19 In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law .
20 IBM Corp 's personal computer business was around the break-even level or may have been profitable in the first three months of this year , the president of IBM Personal Computer Co Robert Corrigan told the New York Times : he says he thinks ‘ people will be surprised at how quickly we 're bringing this business back , ’ and that it should be solidly profitable before year-end ; problem is that its closest rivals , Compaq Computer Corp and Dell Computer Corp , which both faced the same problems as IBM , adjusted to the change in the market much more quickly , and rushed appropriate machines out while IBM procrastinated , so that they are already strongly profitable while IBM is still having to build up momentum .
21 If every surgeon in Britain used the most reliable prosthesis and achieved the same results as the best units the annual cost of revision operations would be £200m .
22 The Nationalist offensive against Madrid deployed the same tactics that its africanista commanders were accustomed to using against tribesmen in the Moroccan Rif : a series of columns attacking simultaneously at different points along an extensive front .
23 This followed the same lines as Woodruffe ( 1976 ) , who divided rural districts into six types depending on their history of population change :
24 As far as the primary phase of schooling was concerned , the plan of development favoured the same activities as were listed in A Framework for the School Curriculum , except that more attention was devoted to history and geography , to expressive arts , and to science , and to the need for clearly structured and progressively demanding work in these areas of the curriculum .
25 And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well
26 Clare and Sylvia did everything together , wore the same clothes and had the same hair-style .
27 Joyce added that he had been informed at Galway , ‘ where I was stationed ’ , that he possessed the same rights and privileges as if ‘ of natural British birth ’ .
28 What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom .
29 I did the same things when we did
30 ‘ Indeed these digs reveal that Macedonians worshipped the same gods and practise the same rites as the Greeks ’ .
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