Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] same [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | One group of sites could be seen to be more or less contemporary because they produced the same types of tool , while those which produced other types could be shown to be earlier or later in date . |
5 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
6 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
7 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
8 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
9 | Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion . |
10 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
11 | They shared the same paynote and were self-selected . |
12 | 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 . " |
13 | and they shared the same manager . |
14 | They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool . |
15 | However , when other people repeated my calculation , they found the same effect . |
16 | In analysing their left-hand columns , the executives found that each side blamed the other side for the difficulties , and they used the same reasons . |
17 | From year to year they used the same handrails to go down into the past : lifting the cartwheel at the crossroads , the drilling sessions by the river , the first ambush , marching at night between the safe houses , the different characters in the houses , the food , the girls … |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres . |
20 | An hour later they used the same tactics to gain entry to the other half of the camp . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | They studied the same subjects for the other nine GCSE subjects . |
26 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
27 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
28 | and they 'd the same bed that that they 'd got married in |
29 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
30 | Rather , while they showed the same pattern of alternating between slow wave sleep and REM sleep about every ninety minutes , the proportion of light sleep stages ( I and 2 ) was low . |