Example sentences of "could [vb infin] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health ! |
| 2 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 3 | Ashdown could have done the same . |
| 4 | We could have done the same with Benjamin . |
| 5 | I wished she could have done the same for me . |
| 6 | Buyers who have paid high prices do not discover that they could have obtained the same goods at lower prices ; sellers who have sold for low prices do not discover that they could have obtained higher prices . |
| 7 | Had Koons asked for permission to use the photo , and Rogers had refused , Prutzman said , ‘ Koons could have made the same point about banality with any number of other images . |
| 8 | I mean , you could have asked the same about us , on a lot of things . |
| 9 | ‘ He could have had the same yesterday . ’ |
| 10 | Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land . |
| 11 | Blackburn could have offered the same argument . |
| 12 | In theory an excise on home production of tobacco could have produced the same revenue as a tax on imports but in practice it took a strong and efficient government to levy an excise , while almost any government could find private businessmen who would pay a lump sum of cash in return for the right to collect the official rates of customs duties at a port . |