Example sentences of "was [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Georgina was in her last year as a law student at Cambridge and was joining the same set of chambers where Victoria herself had trained before her marriage . |
| 32 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 33 | At every level the lines of communication were with the central authority , not with the official who was doing the same job in the adjacent district . |
| 34 | The Israelis were furious at the attack on their colonel who was doing the same job as British soldiers in Ulster , they said . |
| 35 | I went down from the upper grandstand as fast as I could , which was far too slowly because everyone else was doing the same thing . |
| 36 | Erm but this is more or less , indigenous within the engineering industry , there is even inherent within an engineering mind , and I 'm not with the planners or the technical experts , but even in the ordinary lay engineer , he looks to be able to do the job more efficiently , with the materials that he has in hand er and possibly introduce a new type of tool if he can get the proper material , and likewise the employer was doing the same thing . |
| 37 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 38 | They should have had more definite targets , because it was a bit , everyone , at one point everyone was doing the same thing , , through the words which |
| 39 | Up front Tony was asking the same questions . |
| 40 | Latvian CP first secretary Alfred Rubiks , was arrested the same day . |
| 41 | George Mtafu , Malawi 's only neurosurgeon , was arrested the same month after refusing to apologise for challenging public criticisms of northern Malawians made by Life-President Banda . |
| 42 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 43 | As soon as I realised I told him it must stop , but the next thing I knew he was spouting the same fiction to a reporter . ’ |
| 44 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 45 | Half a century later the top-hatted , side-whiskered Stingy Uncle in Punch was giving the same advice . |
| 46 | Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken . |
| 47 | The initial composition of Panic 's " government of experts " was announced the same day . |
| 48 | The abbey was surrendered the same year . |
| 49 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 50 | On it was inscribed the same text in three different scripts — Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic as well as , most importantly , Greek . |
| 51 | He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it . |
| 52 | He was carrying the same grip . |
| 53 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 54 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |
| 55 | T his new economic process , assisted by an increasing effective demand , was to have the same impact on feudal manufacturing structures as it had in agriculture — it destroyed the old order of things . |
| 56 | One thing they could of done was put the same colour belt on the erm , oh ribbon on the hat |
| 57 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 58 | While much of the competition charged more for ‘ new skills ’ , for example in distributed computing , MMT 's policy , he said , was to charge the same rates for all types of expertise . |
| 59 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 60 | He glanced at Ho , and knew that he was thinking the same thing . |