Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 Ion Aurel Stoica , leader of the government 's negotiating team and Minister of State for the Quality of Life and Social Security , offered his resignation on the same day but it was rejected by Roman .
2 There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's .
3 Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style .
4 He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong !
5 Joel Garner was , in fact , almost at the end had begun back in 1976–7 against Pakistan when he made his debut in the same game as Colin Croft .
6 ‘ Tommy Taylor made his debut in the same game as me .
7 His pale grey silk shirt hung from slackened shoulders , ruffling against his chest with the same hot breeze that ruffled her own thin blouse softly against her heaving breast .
8 If he is not saying that he would repeal the increase in VAT , he is simply speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time .
9 And then , of course , there is Steve Bone blowing as many saxes as he can fit in his mouth at the same time .
10 Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art .
11 Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying :
12 His work at the same time marks a break with conventional theorisations of power .
13 Your letter was a great joy to me , a message from another human being who approaches his work with the same seriousness as I do mine , and who has consequently suffered as much under the insanities of our time …
14 Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it .
15 He carried a colour photograph of his mill in the same way that others carry their wives and children .
16 She treated his body with the same gentle reverence as he had used : her soft capable hands caressing him as she massaged the oil into his skin .
17 David Elsworth is lucky to have such a superb performer as Barnbrook Again in his string at the same time as Desert Orchid .
18 It could n't be easy to cope with the emotional strain of a missing husband and do his job at the same time .
19 Uttering a low , violent oath , he grabbed Isabel 's arm and yanked her behind him , drawing his sword at the same time .
20 Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime .
21 I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile .
22 The Chairmaster shrugged his shoulders and shook his head at the same time , finally dislodging the reluctant wig .
23 For example , there was an oil smear on his jacket of the same type as that he used in his car .
24 His pursuit of the same approach in his cantatas arose perhaps from a firm conviction of what would succeed in a genre so closely allied to opera , perhaps from innate conservatism .
25 His marriage in 1832 to Hannah Abbott ( a daughter of John Abbott , a flour merchant of Plymouth ) was only the ostensible reason for the vacation of his fellowship in the same year , as he had already in effect seceded .
26 Reality is at his disposal in the same way that ordinary language and the current literary conventions and devices are .
27 all well and good , but for twenty year , we should n't be talking about this , when I was in Ireland a couple of years ago the skew over overseer said he had to get rid of his television for the same reason , he er could n't turn it up
28 Arty 's voice thickened and blurred into animal grunts as he tried to speak and extend his tongue at the same time .
29 Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher .
30 Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher .
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