Example sentences of "same [noun] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was common practice for families to attend evening service and we sat in the same pew each week , about half way back in the north aisle .
2 They both get the same pocket-money each week .
3 Tim Reagan , a gaunt forty-year-old , who was a genius with trade unions as well as being an accountant and Peter Yeo 's right hand , moved swiftly through the secretarial problem , which was one of shortage of same , and seemed , as Peter Yeo observed pleasantly , to have been exactly the same difficulty any time in the last two years , to a discussion of building security , in which no one was much interested either .
4 Like tea — we have the same brand each week — but if I know it 's cheaper in one shop I go into that shop , just to get that one thing — like I got it for 1 //6; this week and it 's usually 1 //11; — I like to get the best , but cheaper .
5 I argue the same case this year as I did last year , but with greater justification .
6 Not merely does the hon. Gentleman ask the same question each time ; he asks the same supplementary .
7 Hammers reckon they were robbed … but then again Swindon have suffered the same fate this season … so it was their turn to sing and dance …
8 In one of its more far-sighted moves , the SRU had a pool of four coaches in the build-up to the 1991 World Cup , and one trusts that the union will work along the same lines this time .
9 And it was the same bloke each time .
10 A case for seasonal adjustment exists where recognisable seasonal variations occur year after year with a fixed period and where the increases and decreases occur at about the same time and in about the same proportion each year .
11 In the same vein another contributor drew attention to Richard Needham 's statement on Radio Ulster on 19 November 1989 , in which he said that the aim of the government in West Belfast was to improve economic development there in order to attack ‘ terrorism ’ and that this was the government 's prime aim .
12 We worked the same routine each day for our practice rounds — some relaxed play on the course and some hard work before and after we went out .
13 Today today we 're declaring an interim dividend of one point three three per share er compared with the same period this year er sorry let me start that again .
14 Police at Milton Keynes are still hunting the so called Fisherm , ead Rapist who has attacked eight women … latest figures from the Thames Valley Police show an increase in the first three months of 1990 there were two hundred and one offences … in the same period this year two hundred and twenty seven … an increase of 13 per cent …
15 Latest figures showed a 2.6% fall from 381,969 thefts of and from vehicles between April and June 1991 to 372,081 during the same period this year .
16 Superman is I do n't know erm , well same difference any way , but you see this is it , he 's not , you know , in that story , in that , in , in , in , in that sort of nonsense thing , he is not the same character at both times , he has n't got , when he 's walking along the street as Clarke Kent he has n't got the ability to whoosh through the air as Superman he 's Clarke Kent , not so Jesus , he was n't Jesus divine one moment , Jesus human the other but they were perfectly married at all time from his , from the time he was , he 's conception took place , so he was n't one thing one moment , you know and one thing the next , but there it was a perfect marriage if you like , the two , I was gon na say becoming one so that they were invisible , you could n't say of that 's it that 's the human nature of Jesus , that 's his diviner it ju , because the two were perfectly married , they were fused together so they really they became one .
17 A tendency has sometimes been observed for several successive eruptions to occur with noticeable periodicity and for successive thermals to be in the same places each time .
18 This shoal of bream had a leader ; the same leader each time I saw them .
19 Same acid this time use a different alkali .
20 Putting the same point another way , Australia and Canada are as truly republics as are India , Pakistan and Bangladesh .
21 But McDonald has never enjoyed the same profile this side of the Atlantic .
22 I would drag my pride and joy from a tangle of other bikes in a dark , small out house and set it to start in exactly the same place each morning .
23 They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony .
24 It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time .
25 The complication was in saying the newly minted lines at the right side of the mirror whilst arriving at the same place each time .
26 They should always be placed in the same positions each time ; you should be able to put your hand on any of them at a moment 's notice : no scrabbling around !
27 The Wimbledon 's men 's and women 's finals on the same Sunday this year drew only 7.7 million .
28 It 's the monotony I do n't like — it 's repetitive and you have to do the same things each day .
29 Weigh at the same time and under the same conditions each day .
30 For his part , do Nascimento said on Angolan radio the same day that acceptance of a ceasefire was linked to the setting of a date for elections .
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