Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once I got arrested one morning for soliciting , but they let me out of the police station ; I got arrested the same afternoon , they let me out again ; I got arrested in the evening and they kept me in and took me to court the next day . |
| 2 | A rock jutted out which others had grabbed as they swung down , but as I tried to do the same there was no edge below for my feet and I whimpered pathetically dangling on the end of the rope . |
| 3 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 4 | Having succeeded in making your formulae work for Lotus 1-2-3 and for As-Easy-As I tried to do the same in Excel . |
| 5 | ‘ I tried to put the same sentiment into that landscape as I put into the figure : the convulsive , passionate clinging to the earth , and yet being half torn up by the storm . ’ |
| 6 | Q. Blanket weed caused me tremendous problems in my Koi pond last summer , and I want to avoid the same thing happening this year . |
| 7 | See I want to get the same sort of material though as what the other liners , I want to stick the two liners together to make all one great big pond you see right the way across the garden but the other pond might be about two foot deep , this one 's gon na go down |
| 8 | I want to catch the same train out you see |
| 9 | I 'd felt powerless when I was abused as a child and I 'd felt the same powerlessness with the bank manager . |
| 10 | I 'd used the same plan as the previous day , but must have forgotten to change persons on board from two to one — dickhead ! |
| 11 | As usual I just wished I 'd ordered the same as her : a bowl of smoked bacon and Roquefort cheese salad with garlic croutons . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope to do the same in London this year as I did last — win it . |
| 13 | Better said , what I think is what I have thought , or that is to say , that I continue thinking the same . ’ |
| 14 | For this feature , I decided to use the same view , but chose two different seasons and two tinted watercolours papers in parallel . |
| 15 | As you know , I decided to keep the same colour scheme as we have in Paris . |
| 16 | If I try to enter the same thing , it does n't work . |
| 17 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 18 | During the war I had felt the same about those they were attacking , the brave men of the Allied merchant fleets . |
| 19 | ‘ But , darling , suppose I had done the same when I was expecting you ? |
| 20 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 21 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 22 | But I 've said the same before , only to hear someone use the same gadget and get a monster sound . |
| 23 | I 've said the same to meself , but the way we are fixed … well , we could n't do much else . ’ |
| 24 | I 've stayed the same as I was before but now it 's all right to be what I was before . |
| 25 | I 've seen the same kind of thing in the Sorcery Chambers at Tara . |
| 26 | Many 's the time I 've been with people whose eyes glazed over when I 've said I was a feminist and I 've done the same with people who say they love to play golf . |
| 27 | But I 've , what I 'm saying Rod is I 've done the same thing |
| 28 | I 've been I 've been advised chair that I 've made the same mistake as you did so . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've shared the same ball as Waqar and Wasim all series , so why have n't I had the same degree of success ? |
| 30 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |