Example sentences of "was [v-ing] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle .
2 I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them .
3 To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each .
4 Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else .
5 She had already had one of her hips replaced and the other one was going the same way .
6 For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father .
7 She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer .
8 But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then .
9 He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience .
10 Now this woman , a complete stranger , was saying the same thing because she was with Nathan .
11 Now he was saying the same thing .
12 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 .
13 Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work .
14 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 .
15 The Israelis were furious at the attack on their colonel who was doing the same job as British soldiers in Ulster , they said .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 …
19 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
20 Up front Tony was asking the same questions .
21 If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ?
22 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 . ’
23 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 .
24 Half a century later the top-hatted , side-whiskered Stingy Uncle in Punch was giving the same advice .
25 Every last bit of unkempt hedge in our front garden was taking the same attitude it had always taken .
26 He was carrying the same carrier-bag and for some reason they found it impossible not to stare at it .
27 He was carrying the same grip .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 He glanced at Ho , and knew that he was thinking the same thing .
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