Example sentences of "she [vb past] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because when Mamma was in Venice last year I think she met the same man . |
| 2 | Gloria never sunbathed as she thought it was ageing ; she applied the same effect out of a bottle . |
| 3 | She used the same lines over and over again , wearing a fixed smile on her face . |
| 4 | She had seen that instantly the next afternoon ; in Rachel 's eyes she recognised the same melting joy as she had seen in Lisa 's . |
| 5 | With a stab of fear , she recognised the same lack of focus in Connor 's eyes , as if he were looking inwards instead of seeing the world about him . |
| 6 | Although she was by now in her late thirties , she recognised the same symptoms as in her previous pregnancy . |
| 7 | She telephoned police and as she waited for them to arrive she noticed the same youths approach a man with two young children and drench one of the children . |
| 8 | Misfortune struck Sir John when his second wife died ; she received the same treatment as his first spouse . |
| 9 | During the course of the next year , she expressed the same view each time I saw her . |
| 10 | Yet both Rosie and Victoria had warned her against letting herself fall for him , in case she followed the same fate as his other nurses . |
| 11 | Allowing herself a small triumphant smile , she started the same process on the right boot . |
| 12 | It would be impossible to accuse Lili of being ill-dressed , but if she wore the same clothes for decade after decade while my mother did not , then there was something wrong somewhere and my mother was suspecting that , implicit in the situation , lay criticism of her taste and judgement . |
| 13 | She laughed the same way as when I 'd first seen her . |
| 14 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 15 | Mrs James then told the court how she and Mr Loxton had been transported by the police to Nottingham some time later , where she saw the same man in a street there . |
| 16 | She went the same day , they tell me . |
| 17 | Of course , I 've always loved her but I 'd no idea she felt the same way about me until she told me this afternoon . |
| 18 | she said what , what agenda do you want , so I said just the same and so she put the same venue , we tend to alter at the meeting she said |
| 19 | She cooked , she cleaned , she shopped , she walked Pilade , she saw to her lodgers — day after day she did the same things at the same time , and instead of being driven half mad with boredom , insane with frustration , she found herself strangely at peace . |
| 20 | What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom . |
| 21 | She did the same in the kitchen ; she did the same thing with the books , removing them , dusting them carefully , and returning them to clean , wiped , and waxed shelves . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's not that hard up , ’ Anne retorted amid laughter , but soon she had the same experience with another young man . |
| 23 | Paddy 's daughter was tall like him , and she had the same air of self-assurance . |
| 24 | Well she copes because she had the same problem as me with her hands if she 's writing for long , her hands ache , so she can write a longer letter if she types , so I said I , I did n't really , I like a hand written letter best it seems more personal somehow , perhaps they do , having a typed letter means you can send a longer one , they all mean |
| 25 | Reading a letter from Miss Joan Rix in the EADT last week , I find that she had the same thoughts as myself . |
| 26 | She had the same colour hair , all yellow and curly , and she walked in just the same way , sort of little bouncing steps . |
| 27 | She had the same kind of eyes , a real pinned kind of look . |
| 28 | She had the same quietness and serenity his Renée had had . |
| 29 | A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently . |
| 30 | She had the same manner as George , a sad kind of demeanour that on a woman was attractive while on a man like George it was annoying . |