Example sentences of "was [v-ing] the same " 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 | Sam was cleaning the same damn glass he had been cleaning when I came in . |
| 4 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 5 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 6 | She had already had one of her hips replaced and the other one was going the same way . |
| 7 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 8 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 9 | The little boy was wearing the same neat grey flannels that he had worn on the first day Robert had seen him , and , when the sun struck his face , he smiled up at it as if in gratitude . |
| 10 | But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then . |
| 11 | I thought maybe he was getting the same as Richard and Bryony had had , but he 's cheered up . |
| 12 | He was sure that McAllister was undergoing the same experience . |
| 13 | Now this woman , a complete stranger , was saying the same thing because she was with Nathan . |
| 14 | Now he was saying the same thing . |
| 15 | Yes er it goes on to say , erm for I too am a man placed under authority , having soldiers under me see Jesus was a man of authority the other officer was saying the same |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a film like Scandal , which dealt with the Profumo affair , might make young people go back and check out more about what was happening in the early sixties , so I was doing the same in terms of the fifties . |
| 18 | In a way , the three of them were like moles , digging their way to the surface looking for freedom , coincidentally at the same time that counter-culture was doing the same and searching for heroes . |
| 19 | Nellie was doing the same at the other side . |
| 20 | Since everyone else was doing the same , there was no point in chivalrously remaining behind to be captured . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Israelis were furious at the attack on their colonel who was doing the same job as British soldiers in Ulster , they said . |
| 24 | ‘ I just felt I was doing the same old thing , week after week , month after month . |
| 25 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In a small way , perhaps , from the inside of an ethnic minority , I was doing the same . |
| 28 | As Ana was doing the same , both Mitch and Felipe looked less than happy . |
| 29 | 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 … |
| 30 | I bet he was doing the same the year before . |