Example sentences of "it [vb past] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in a sense it failed through the same sort of determination that gained him the earlier success on April 27th . |
| 2 | As for the residence requirement , despite the fact that it applied in the same way to British nationals , it constituted covert discrimination on grounds of nationality in so far as , by the very nature of things , nationals of other member states were less likely to be ‘ resident ’ in the United Kingdom than British citizens . |
| 3 | This happened once while I was at Binbrook , and we were all jailed for a week — well , con fined to our quarters , really , but it amounted to the same thing . |
| 4 | It amounted to the same thing for him . |
| 5 | It was short , like Mr Hyde , and it moved in the same light , quick , active way . |
| 6 | It moved in the same half — crouched , shambling run as it had the night before , quietly , stealthily , purposefully . |
| 7 | This effect did not depend on oesophageal acidification as it occurred to the same extent with both pH + and pH - common cavity episodes . |
| 8 | It referred to the same matters as the Financial Secretary had stated to the Committee and concluded : |
| 9 | We also tested an unrelated human osteosarcoma-derived cell line ( 13.1 ; M.P.K. and G. Attardi , unpublished observations , and ref. 18 ) , and it behaved in the same way : the cells could be induced to undergo apoptosis by either serum deprivation or staurosporine treatment , and they were protected by transfection with bcl-2 ( not shown ) . |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't know about that , but it came to the same thing , I suppose . |
| 11 | You see , it came from the same thing . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't you think it 's surprising that she could n't recall delivering twins for Lilian , when it happened at the same time as Donna , almost ? |
| 13 | It happened with the same naturalness that had first drawn them together , and in taking her he felt the greatest fulfilment of his life . |
| 14 | It commented in the same year that , ‘ while recognizing the considerable contribution that Mr Hornby has made in building up the Council to its present position of eminence within the colleges , it was now time for the CNAA 's influence to be more widely felt ’ . |
| 15 | It began at the same time for both of us , did n't it ? |
| 16 | Joey does n't compete in the short circuit section of the championship in which King has excelled but he has generally been in command between the hedges and today it looked like the same old story when he took the lead after the first lap . |
| 17 | This was more than it fell during the same stage of both the 1973–75 and 1981–82 recessions , but less than the short , sharp fall in 1980 . |
| 18 | The leaf area/weight was as efficient in the sense that it took about the same time to detect comparable differences . |
| 19 | Interestingly , this work drew to a large extent upon the highly-theorised use of psychoanalysis and deconstruction ; it emerged around the same time that the feminist anti-pornography movement , on a grassroots and activist basis , was also seriously problematising our culture 's sight of women 's bodies . |
| 20 | John Sich founded the ‘ Lamb Brewery ’ , in 1773 , just off Church Street , Chiswick , and it remained in the same family until 1923 . |