Example sentences of "they [verb] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did . |
| 2 | Colin is the first to acknowledge that he really needs Mister C. It might sound a little ridiculous , but you could almost see them developing the same kind of double act as Flavor Flav and Chuck D. The prof and the prat . |
| 3 | Further , that integration is to be made more seamless over the coming year when IBM will begin merging OS/2 and AIX , enabling them to use the same database and share application development tools . |
| 4 | Can we really expect them to retain the same way of thinking as they had as penniless hopefuls , and if they did would n't that simply be an insipid patronisations ? |
| 5 | ‘ We want the pair of them struck off to prevent them doing the same thing again , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Merlins will also hunt together , three or four of them chasing the same group of skylarks . |
| 7 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 8 | Is it that would they make the same kind of comment to one of their male students , like ‘ that 's a nice jumper you 've got on ’ , something like that ? |
| 9 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , as British buy-outs come firmly into vogue , they raise the same question that early American ones did . |
| 11 | But when such people are exposed to a high-fat Western diet , they develop the same type of preferences as Westerners . |
| 12 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 13 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 14 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 15 | They shared the same paynote and were self-selected . |
| 16 | They nearly always ate together ; they gave each other all they had that was especially valuable ; they shared the same house , slept under the same roof . " |
| 17 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 18 | They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool . |
| 19 | In the end , they make the same decision as most others and decide to go ahead and have children , and to try to reconcile this with their material aspirations . |
| 20 | One might even extend the idea and talk of semantic parallelism where two sentences are linked because they mean the same thing . |
| 21 | a natural request erm th the Liberal Democrat one is much more workers and er , and er they mean the same thing , and I think I would er ask for this group er support er the second one rather than the first one . |
| 22 | Er well each guild makes their own mind up whether they have a new pre if , if they want the same president year after year or secretary . |
| 23 | Culley and Jackson did n't know one another , did they know the same thing . |
| 24 | However , when other people repeated my calculation , they found the same effect . |
| 25 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 26 | Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres . |
| 27 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 28 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 29 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 30 | They visited the same city , perhaps the same places , and spent the same amount of money — but Joy had a marvellous time , while Gloom was thoroughly miserable from start to finish . |