Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I wo n't have any of my sons going the same way . ’ |
| 2 | I am very pleased to be part of the same family and to know that my parents feel the same . |
| 3 | Does she accept that it is impossible to explain to them why patients who are haemophiliacs are eligible for compensation but they are not — even though my constituents have the same condition , life expectancy and financial pressures ? |
| 4 | In my second thoughts my aims remain the same , but are more thoroughly developed : and all these grovelling references to ‘ great ’ historians and their ‘ brilliant ’ works have been extirpated . |
| 5 | As far as wrinkles and saggy bits go , the majority of my friends look the same , and I do n't waste five hours on daily maintenance like Cher . |
| 6 | I have suffered too much to let my children face the same suffering … . |
| 7 | My clothes remain the same . |
| 8 | When his own daughter passed the age of twelve , Salah kept her at school and persuaded the parents of six of her contemporaries to do the same . |
| 9 | Reading an article in a trade journal reminded me of how far behind we are in the use of fluids in this country , by embalmers whose end product never varies and , therefore , their cases look the same and last the same , and funnily enough the noses and around the mouths grey off — the eternal question again ! |
| 10 | Again , although I visited her regularly , taking little presents ; remembered her birthday and saw to it that her sons did the same ; looked after her once when she was ill ; and respected my husband 's love for her , I did not take much notice of her suggestions : ‘ My mother seems to think … |
| 11 | At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious . |
| 12 | Cleaner shrimps are opportunistic feeders and not above attacking filter-feeding sea cucumbers such as sea apples ( Pseudocolochirus axiologus ) to rob them of food trapped in their tentacles using the same ‘ nit picking ’ techniques they adopt to clean their clients . |
| 13 | Her eyes looked the same as yours and mine , only bigger . |
| 14 | They were crowded together in a corner , their tails pointing the same way . |
| 15 | Although Landsats 4 and 5 have a lower orbital altitude ( 705 km ) than Landsats 1–3 , their orbits cover the same proportion of the Earth 's surface — that between 82°N and S latitude . |
| 16 | Yet their deeds have the same perverted outcome . |
| 17 | Able to see by lights from their pit helmets , the trapped miners cut the pipe at their end of the blockage while their rescuers did the same , pumping through fresh air by fan . |
| 18 | They want their governments to do the same , especially on defence . |
| 19 | Even the critic Arthur Jerome Eddy , who was the author of the first English book on Cubism and a cautious supporter of the movement , was able to write : ‘ In short Picasso and a few followers have reached a degree of abstraction in the suppression of the real and the particular that their paintings represent the same degree of emotion as the demonstration of a difficult geometrical proposition . ’ |
| 20 | There is evidence that it became the practice for individuals to be named after the day on which they were born and that couples were not allowed to marry if their birthdays had the same numeral . |
| 21 | Greece has always stressed that it had no designs on Macedonian territory and it has succeeded in getting its neighbours to say the same . |
| 22 | She went on to say that although she 'd done what she could from her Oxford home , and encouraged her friends to do the same , eventually she just had to pack and go to Orkney . |
| 23 | She let her eyes roam over him freely , and longed for her hands to have the same privilege . |
| 24 | ( 7 ) Archive material is unique and irreplacable , and history teachers should handle original material carefully and encourage their pupils to do the same . |
| 25 | Designed for four sessions , Parenting In a TV Age provides a step-by-step process to help parents learn to analyse the media , to teach their children to do the same themselves and to enable them develop selection criteria for what to watch and what to miss . |
| 26 | It was soon realised , however , that the national bourgeoisie was too weak to pursue an independent line and being themselves involved in the complexities of dependent development , their orientations remained the same as the rest of the dominant class . |
| 27 | He proceeded to ring that director on a regular basis from the continental sharedealer where he worked , saying : " If you want your wife and children to keep their faces looking the same , you 'd better pay your little debt . " |
| 28 | oh her tempers getting the same Les |
| 29 | The relevant contracts will include provisions requiring the private contractors and their employees to adopt the same standards in protecting the privacy of taxpayer information as apply to Revenue employees . |
| 30 | Her novels have the same honest sensitivity as the photographs she has been taking since the 1930s — photographs of rural poverty in Mississippi , of back streets with laundry drying on a line , of proud school teachers , of plum-pickers with their tin buckets . |