Example sentences of "took the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When he started at the NHS in Scotland in 1989 he took the same approach .
2 And a day after them the Panzer convoys took the same road , and some of the girls and women of Bazar with great daring threw flowers onto the mud-spattered armour of the Panther heavy tanks , and some of the men cheered and the headmaster of the secondary school said that evening in the café on Lenin Street that this was a moment of deliverance .
3 The Daimler was parked at the end of the towpath , and they took the same road .
4 If others took the same decision it would spare the North selectors some uncomfortable choices .
5 Local Authorities took the same attitude .
6 If , having chosen not to take advice , they took the same tack with the process of law once started , and thought that by ignoring it or defying it they could halt it , they were laying themselves open to an even ruder shock .
7 Penny only wanted a West Country holiday , not the least ingratiating thing about her , and they took the same cottage that his Mum had rented , and they stopped , he and Penny , for the same coffee and the same stroll round the monument .
8 Navigation by the sun and stars almost always took the same course as the tyre-tracks .
9 It may simply be the case that Boswell , seeing that Johnson chose not to mention Culloden , took the same course of action .
10 The social hierarchy in English towns took the same shape as in the countryside , tapering from a broad base composed of those who lived on or below the poverty line to a few outstanding wealthy families .
11 But many of us saw it as an approach which emphasised the need to allow the faith of Christ to be incarnated within particular culture and Sir Paul , the former Archbishop of New Zealand took the same stand point as a Maori , in his own address and called delegates present to speak and act as people of hope and to respond sensitively to economic and environment progility and isolation , not only in the Pacific but wherever they are .
12 Corbett did not go through Edinburgh but took the same route as he had earlier followed , skirting the city , plodding his way through marsh and bog till he reached the clean , white sanctity of the Abbey .
13 The minister , whose evidence led to the collapse of the Matrix Churchill court case this week , took the same position in writing .
14 According to Murimuth the Earls of Derby , Salisbury , Warwick , Arundel , Pembroke and Suffolk ‘ and many other barons and knights ’ took the same oath .
15 Twenty years ago I took the same journey to look at the ruins of Glastonbury , destroyed by Fat Henry and his evil spirit , Thomas Cromwell .
16 The other group ( the " Explanation " group ) took the same time to cover the same materials .
17 He was hardly ever gloomy , but when he was , it always took the same form .
18 At times the broadcasters themselves did not really understand the significance of what they were broadcasting , so it was hardly surprising that their listeners took the same view : enthusiasm , and the lack of it , are equally infectious .
19 Nigerian Television ( NTV ) , also federally organized and centred , took the same view .
20 The Women 's Labour League , of which Mrs MacDonald was a leading member , took the same view , seeing in paid work the additional disadvantage that a woman had less opportunity to ‘ give thought and companionship to her husband ’ .
21 If I am wrong , I am wrong in the company of comrade Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov who took the same view in his book of 5957 on Imperialism , the Highest Stage of Capitalism .
22 In that case , which involved the transfer of patients and the lease of a building from one drug dependency foundation to another as a result of the local authority 's decision to transfer its subsidy , the Court took the same view that the decisive criterion was whether the business in question retained its identity and adopted a similar approach to the range of factors to be taken into account by the national court in deciding this matter .
23 The Left Wing of the ILP took the same view , though eventually it became more sympathetic to the Communists .
24 They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion .
25 They took the same tube for the first few stops .
26 The conference this year took the same theme and posed the question has anything really changed ?
27 One group took the same path as the sea slugs did in more recent times and lost their shells altogether .
28 After the wheat had been harvested and the rice transplanted we were no longer needed , and took the same train back to Raxaul , leaving the buffalo grazing , Goshai fishing and villagers making their offerings under the holy tree .
29 Then an hour later Curley took the same action with 2-1 favourite Torwada .
30 Kazakhstan 's President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbekistan 's President Islam Karimov both condemned the way in which the draft treaty had been thrust upon the republics by the centre , and took the same line as the Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin in arguing that it should be the republics ' prerogative to dictate what powers the centre should retain .
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