Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the same [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Actually , the ‘ embarrassment of riches ’ problem boils down to the same failing as that of the biological and personality-type theories : they both produced categories that were , apparently , far too weakly related to crime to be worthy of a ‘ positivist ’ discipline .
2 ‘ Farmers brought animals along to the same waiting room as human patients .
3 We start off with the same two words every time .
4 I rinsed it off with wet tissue , dried it off with the same soft wipes , and it came up like new .
5 ‘ Two Turkish teams have had three players sent off in the same European match .
6 With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill .
7 But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team .
8 It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass .
9 Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority .
10 He repeated his question , and came up against the same smiling ignorance .
11 Gone over it , through it , round it , beyond it , and ended , every time , trapped in the same corner , backed up against the same blank wall .
12 In a similar search which fails , R1 and R2 will end up with the same final weights , but R3 is not rewarded :
13 Othello ends up with the same poisoned suspicions as Iago , who had earlier confessed that he suspects both Othello and Cassio of having cuckolded him with Emilia ( II.i.285ff . ) .
14 ‘ It was an obvious choice , partly because of all the business they were doing in Europe and also because the public was fed up with the same old faces ; here was someone fresh at last , ’ recalls Peter Batty , director of the him .
15 As usual , the interesting people told me to piss off , and I ended up with the same old circle of publicity seekers . ’
16 ‘ He used to grumble about him , but it would always end up with the same old story . ’
17 It is bad enough having the sufferer saying one thing but really meaning another without the counsellor getting caught up in the same macabre " game " .
18 ‘ If you have already experienced a bad marriage , you may feel that to marry again is to end up in the same sorry state .
19 However , the effect of experience on temperament is still limited by the horse 's genetic traits — for example , if both the naturally placid horse and the naturally nervous horse were brought up in the same rough environment , then the placid horse would still be less timid than the nervous one .
20 Er children are n't brought up in the same maternal way as they are in in this country , and many other countries .
21 I heard you wake up from the same bad dream
22 Tolkien wanted his characters in The Lord of the Rings to live up to the same high standard .
23 ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems .
24 And she could have sworn that , after the first second or two , he had been caught up by the same strong feeling .
25 She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man .
26 Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ?
27 When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion .
28 ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies .
29 He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here .
30 Works out about the same 7
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