Example sentences of "it [vb past] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It met the same fate as its predecessors .
2 It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video .
3 In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law .
4 Here it played the same role .
5 Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 .
6 Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses .
7 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
8 taking it cos it did the same thing .
9 Originally it gave the same reading as the theatre score ; Purcell made the alteration in order to bring it into line with the printed version .
10 It had the same air of dereliction and sadness , but something else too .
11 It had the same look of sunny cheerfulness as the rest of the house .
12 I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday .
13 That 's right , er and it had the same number
14 These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) .
15 But whatever it was , it had the same effect .
16 It had the same effect too in China .
17 Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister .
18 It had the same effect on me the first time I saw it at night . ’
19 It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose .
20 It had the same sort of sense , largely meaningless , amorphous , diffuse , woolly , as applied to ‘ love ’ .
21 It carried the same headline as the one Mungo had seen in the train : ‘ BIRD 'S HEAD CLUE TO GIRL 'S DEATH .
22 He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents .
23 It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size .
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