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 . |