Example sentences of "were [v-ing] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Muslim– Druze revolt against Chamoun began with fierce street fighting in Beirut , the Christians noted that the Muslims were using the same pan-Arab rhetoric as Nasser . |
| 2 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 3 | Within a generation or two aristocratic Christians were pursuing the same interests as their pagan ancestors . |
| 4 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 5 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 6 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 7 | She saw that Defries and Johannsen were attempting the same manoeuvre . |
| 8 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 9 | Cos there was different er things do you see , infantry , Royal Welsh and things like that , they were going the same as us . |
| 10 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 11 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 12 | All the other voices around me were saying the same and the distant peal of the convent bell mingling , not incongruously , with the cry from the minaret went unheeded . |
| 13 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 14 | While these groups and individuals may not always have shared our analysis , they were asking the same questions about the link between government claims and reality in relation to job creation and training in West Belfast . |
| 15 | As , yet again , Britain started its mopping up operation , tired rescue workers , tearful home owners and others were asking the same question : Whatever caused the heavens to open ? |
| 16 | Then , in August 1928 , Arsenal took the field at Hillsborough wearing numbers on their backs , while on the same day , Chelsea , at home , were doing the same — at Chapman 's suggestion . |
| 17 | ‘ Although Chris and I had divorced , we still played together , standing three feet from each other , and Lindsey and Stevie were doing the same number . |
| 18 | Other young fellows were doing the same thing ; we used to meet and recognize each other and compare notes — and pretty scathing we were at times with what we found . |
| 19 | The conductor pushed the door open and peered up the train to see that others were doing the same . |
| 20 | Jehan nodded , and he saw that others in the room were doing the same . |
| 21 | Role B : Keep the details of what you were doing the same as for the last interview . |
| 22 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , in the Danube province of Upper Moesia , stratores were to be found supervising road stations at both Nis ( Naissus ) and Cuprija ( Horreum Margi ) , and it is not impossible that they were doing the same in Britain . |
| 24 | On a pure labour law test , on the other hand , it might be said that the fact that the employees were doing the same kind of work on the same machines should be enough to amount to a transfer of a business . |
| 25 | The others were doing the same jobs they had during peacetime : baker , steward , purser , electrician , storekeeper . |
| 26 | They were doing the same thing as the driver ants , and for the same reasons . |
| 27 | Almost as many men died behind the lines as did from going over the top , an old sergeant told Charlie , and it did n't help to know that the Germans were suffering the same problems a few hundred yards away . |
| 28 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 29 | LONG before we started telling naive people to take what they were told with a pinch of salt , the Romans were issuing the same advice in the form of ‘ cum grano salis ’ , which was actually a mild pun . |
| 30 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |