Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 It was only when I actually visited the Broads that I became infected with the same enthusiasm which led Ransome to write the books .
2 Well I tend to move in the same fleet .
3 Despite Sealink 's best efforts , I ca n't wait to escape our tiny cabin for the Bentley , whose interior I reckon has about the same amount of room but is more expensively trimmed .
4 The person on duty disappeared out the back and I went to sit in the same seat where I had sat the night before .
5 It was not difficult to arrange because I went to stay with the same farmer with whom I had spent the whole of the previous year as an evacuee .
6 As I made my way home and tried to comprehend the logic of taking another batsman on board , I kept arriving at the same conclusion — that I 'd be better off out of it .
7 If I decide to remove all the fish but the brichardi , how many resultant pairs of offspring should I allow to breed in the same tank as the parents ?
8 I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap .
9 I had to sleep in the same room as loads of them on account of we said I was his secretary . ’
10 Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box .
11 But I 've lived in the same house with my daughter-in-law for four years .
12 Twenty years I have lived with the same man and still I do not know him .
13 I have lived in the same flat for 2½ years , and so far I 've made no new friends at all .
14 I have come to the same conclusion as many people who find that they have a potentially fatal disease .
15 I have come to the same conclusion that some a method of appointment is in fact right and it makes sense .
16 A portrait of a child by Luis Paret y Alcazar ( 1746–1799 ) which has remained in the same family since it was painted is expected to sell for more than Pta40 million ( £220,000 ; $429,000 ) .
17 Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs .
18 The index can be seen as measuring the increase in gross taxable income required to compensate taxpayers for any increase in retail prices , taking into account any changes in direct taxation ( including employees ' National Insurance contributions ) which have occurred at the same time .
19 but you hate to think at the same time what happened how they were burning you hate to think of
20 Do you know I ca n't remember the date , early part of March , early part of March , erm what she says at the moment is that er someone else from the college is going to Leicester next Wednesday when Helen 's going to Cardiff and this girl is then going to Cardiff when Helen should be going to Leicester , so Helen says , and she wants to look at the same subjects as what Helen does so Helen says that they 're gon na sort of go to the different colleges and compare notes when they come back from it so she might need n't want to go to Leicester
21 How terrible to adore like this so that you want to lie in the same grave and share nothing with the world but live above it like Zeus and Hera .
22 The idea is to order everything you want to eat at the same time , then work your way through the tower of baskets .
23 4.5 In Lim Poh Choo v Camden and Islington Area Health Authority [ 1980 ] AC 174 ( per Lord Scarman giving the main speech with which the rest of their Lordships agreed ) the House of Lords re-affirmed what Lord Blackburn had said over 100 years ago : " the principle of the law is that compensation should as nearly as possible put the party who has suffered in the same position as he would have been if he had not sustained the wrong " ( Livingstone v Rawyards Coal Co ( 1880 ) 5 App Cas 25 , 39 ) .
24 After the hearing Mrs Todd , who has lived in the same house for 27 years , said she had no plans to move .
25 I feel far mo , less sympathy and far less identification with her than I perhaps do with a male worker who has to cope with the same kind of exploitation that I do , day in , day out .
26 Here I use her hypotheses as set out in her paper ‘ Some Mutual Interactions Between Organizations and Their Members ’ as well as others she has written on the same theme .
27 She has written in the same magazine ( June 1987 ) on the Book of Exodus , warning that a reading of the Bible as literature , rather than as sacred text , ‘ can not lift heavenward ’ .
28 A woman retiring at 60 will get a lower pension from a PP than a man would at 65 , even if she has paid in the same amount over the same number of years .
29 ‘ Would you like to eat at the same place ? ’ he asked , taking no risks .
30 It 's also very rare that you finish standing on the same position from which you made the cast .
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