Example sentences of "it [vb past] the same " in BNC.

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1 It met the same fate as its predecessors .
2 It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video .
3 In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law .
4 Here it played the same role .
5 Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 .
6 Probably it served the same functions in the hands of the Minoan priestesses .
7 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
8 It repeated the same three-note phrase over and over , and Montaine caught the little tune and sang it back . ’
9 It looked the same as the other one to her , except perhaps that the knuckle bone of the little finger was more prominent than the rest and the finger itself rather stiff .
10 Unable to meet his eyes , she stared at the garden , wondering vaguely why it looked the same when she felt so very different .
11 It sent the same strongly worded Memorial to the Chancellor of the Exchequer , ‘ the Minister [ sic ] of War ’ , and ‘ the Chief [ sic ] Commissioner of Her Majesty 's Works and Buildings ’ .
12 Not so blatant now , but it meant the same .
13 It did the same again in January 1985 ; when the pound fell to $1.12 banks were instructed to raise interest rates by 1.5 per cent .
14 It did the same as you did .
15 She could have told him it did the same for him , but she did n't .
16 taking it cos it did the same thing .
17 Originally it gave the same reading as the theatre score ; Purcell made the alteration in order to bring it into line with the printed version .
18 It sounded the same as the English siren except that it was slower .
19 Yes I suppose it sounded the same to me .
20 But whatever it was , it had the same effect .
21 It had the same feeling of having been created for a special , mystical purpose .
22 It had the same dark hair , the same white skin and the same extraordinarily inviting eyes .
23 It had the same clinging , sullen heat .
24 It had the same sort of sense , largely meaningless , amorphous , diffuse , woolly , as applied to ‘ love ’ .
25 It had the same effect too in China .
26 These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) .
27 It had the same air of dereliction and sadness , but something else too .
28 It had the same feel to it that she knew from the long hours she 'd spent experiencing the mass-market romantic slush that Madreidetic packed into their holos .
29 Nothing else has changed ; I have n't been here since that day a week after Clare died , and it had the same muddily washed-out look about it then .
30 It had the same look of sunny cheerfulness as the rest of the house .
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