Example sentences of "were [v-ing] [adv] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aye well you see it we used to it does n't matter how she jumped and rolled , we were eating just the same . |
| 2 | Indeed , I recall one occasion when I heard him and Tony Benn separately on the radio and they were expressing essentially the same opinions about the same issues . |
| 3 | The largest sine ] " Occupational group among the fathers is indeed compositors ( 10 ) and these men 's daughters were doing exactly the same as their sons : following their father into a trade . |
| 4 | For the priests , in fact , were doing exactly the same trick , and probably by exactly the same means , as the old East Anglian and Scottish horsemen who made out and actually believed that the horse 's immobility was the result of some secret and magical device they had resorted to . |
| 5 | And while the fashionable ammonites and graptolites were competing for their place in the spotlight , the minor characters in the stratigraphical play were doing exactly the same thing . |
| 6 | How many of the young men and women of her own world were doing exactly the same as Rose ? |
| 7 | And you were doing exactly the same thing were n't you ? |
| 8 | The similarity of subject-matter between Picasso 's Horta landscapes and those which Braque was executing at exactly the same time at La Roche Guyon ( that is to say in mid 1909 ) enables one to appreciate with clarity the fact that , although they were reaching much the same conclusions , it was for different reasons . |
| 9 | Meanwhile other studios were learning much the same lessons , albeit for somewhat different reasons . |
| 10 | ‘ We were playing much the same clubs as before in a very similar competition . |
| 11 | Indeed post-elementary Hadow schools into which many of them were moved into after 1926 were offering much the same education as the old elementary schools had offered for those children between the ages of eleven and fourteen before 1926 . |
| 12 | Around about the period when Monsieur Henri Mignet and his incredible Pou du Ciel , or ‘ Flying Flea ’ , was captivating the Great British Public 's imagination with his aeronautical exploits in a home-made aeroplane , several American inventors were offering much the same aerial excitement to their own countrymen , but with rather more ‘ conventional ’ designs . |