Example sentences of "they [vb past] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got a different atomic weight , cos they 've got a different number of neutrons , but they got the same number of protons and they 've got the same pattern of electrons , and the pattern of those outer electrons is what decides its chemical properties . |
| 2 | Thus if they sold the same number of beds next year they would only make £3,000 assuming they bought all those beds at the current price . |
| 3 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 4 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 5 | They shared the same sense of humour as long as they kept off delicate subjects like sexism . |
| 6 | They shared the same paynote and were self-selected . |
| 7 | They nearly always ate together ; they gave each other all they had that was especially valuable ; they shared the same house , slept under the same roof . " |
| 8 | and they shared the same manager . |
| 9 | They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool . |
| 10 | However , when other people repeated my calculation , they found the same effect . |
| 11 | When Mrs Thatcher and President Reagan both spoke at the United Nations ' 4Oth Anniversary in 1985 they used the same autocue , which remained in a fixed position . |
| 12 | Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres . |
| 13 | When they launched themselves into production in 1922 , Balcon and Saville with Woman to Woman , the story of a shell-shocked officer who comes out of amnesia to discover the truth about his sordid past , and Wilcox with two films of which the second , a florid melodrama called The Flames of Passion , was a hit , they used the same director , Graham Cutts , and judged it worthwhile incurring the expense of bringing over American stars , Betty Compson for Woman , Mae Marsh for Flames , in order to increase their films ' marquee value at home and abroad . |
| 14 | Two solutions might occur to ingenious engineers , indeed did occur to them when they encountered the same problem , again in the analogous case of radar . |
| 15 | The French recovered the lead but two laps later they tried the same move in the same place and there was a collision between the two boats . |
| 16 | They visited the same city , perhaps the same places , and spent the same amount of money — but Joy had a marvellous time , while Gloom was thoroughly miserable from start to finish . |
| 17 | Free men on the frontiers of industry , shocking the respectable of all classes , the heroes of an unofficial folklore of masculinity , they played the same sort of role as sailors and frontier miners and prospectors , though earning more than the ones , and lacking the others ' hope of making their fortune . |
| 18 | The recovery was slow and by 1937 the rate was still at 9%. 3 By 1941 , then , people looked back across two decades of mass unemployment to the end of the previous war , and by and large they assumed the same thing would happen again . |
| 19 | and they 'd the same bed that that they 'd got married in |
| 20 | Some of the early groups joining the Modular Course as they faced the same problem of replacing London external degrees ( humanities and social science ) felt the strong hand of management as they exercised their ‘ academic ’ decision to join . |
| 21 | Rather , while they showed the same pattern of alternating between slow wave sleep and REM sleep about every ninety minutes , the proportion of light sleep stages ( I and 2 ) was low . |
| 22 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 23 | They given the same grant |
| 24 | Although his groups , ‘ Tiddlers ’ , ‘ Ritz ’ , and ‘ Boys ’ , reflected increasing involvement in delinquent activities , they served the same function of enabling young people to achieve the sort of reputations and images denied them in mainstream society . |
| 25 | By the time the train reached Ealing Broadway they had been in and out of every car and as the train returned they followed the same routine . |
| 26 | Er okay , different words to describe the same and indeed they did n't take out of any fund , but they achieved the same end result . |
| 27 | During World War Two , the fortunes of those two bomber squadrons bore striking similarities , they arrived together in 1943 and left together in 1945 , they flew the same type of aircraft , Halifax and Lancaster , and shared the same operations . |
| 28 | If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock . |
| 29 | The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road . |
| 30 | Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument . |