Example sentences of "he [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But will he if the person facing him has the same weapon ? |
| 2 | Philip at first took no notice of what he said ; but when he heard him repeat the same thing several times , and saw he was greatly upset by the horse being sent away , eventually replied : ‘ Are you criticising those who are older than yourself , as if you knew more , and were better able to manage him than they ? ’ |
| 3 | We would n't want him to play the same trick on us , stealing our clients so he can deal them elsewhere , " said Fox Milton director Philip Raisey . |
| 4 | Paul Burrough was the happiest , as his was the only fish caught in his section , resulting in him scooping the same cash as the winner . |
| 5 | Wycliffe said : ‘ Could anyone who knew your cousin 's habits rely on him taking the same walk at approximately the same time each night ? ’ |
| 6 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |
| 7 | In spite of Paxford 's strong left-wing views , Minto idolized him and allowed him to occupy the same sort of position in her household as John Brown had occupied at the court of Queen Victoria . |
| 8 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 9 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 10 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 11 | As each door opened to him , he made the same statement . |
| 12 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 13 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 14 | But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive . |
| 15 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 16 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 17 | Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters . |
| 18 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 19 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |
| 20 | Later in the year he conveyed the same message to the visiting American Under-Secretary of State , George Ball . |
| 21 | But this in essence is just what Pooh did when he inferred the same belief about honey from his direct observation of bees . |
| 22 | Again he found the same link between unemployment and mortality . |
| 23 | The Campbells found Hector hardy , which they had expected , and intelligent , which they had n't ; while he found the same thing about them , in reverse ; and they were each surprised to find that-they liked the others well enough , in spite of their ridiculous clothes . |
| 24 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman will forgive me if I say that he has the same problem with me that I have with the Whips Office . |
| 26 | ‘ Alexander , he has the same name as the late king . |
| 27 | Perhaps Locke did not recognise the difference because he used the same word , ‘ idea ’ , both for what we would ordinarily call an idea and for what is imprinted in , or on , the mind , the ‘ sensation ’ . |
| 28 | 160 , the visitors observed that Lord Denning was not using the word ‘ delegate ’ in the narrow sense in which it is sometimes used today any more than Lord Mansfield had when he used the same word in a similar context in Rex v. Benchers of Gray 's Inn , 1 Doug . |
| 29 | He used the same technique as when looking for a lost golf ball and took a line on a large house on the Ramsgate front . |
| 30 | He used the same language as that employed by the Chinese government to explain away the unrest that the democracy movement unleashed in May and June — namely that it was the work of a ‘ handful of evil-doers ’ . |