Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [prep] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 2 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 3 | We hope to juxtapose paintings that they painted at the same site at the same time ’ . |
| 4 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 5 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 6 | Relatively little is known of the first great temples , which were built between 2000 and 1900 BC and destroyed by earthquakes in 1700 BC , except that they stood on the same sites as the later temples . |
| 7 | All we can reasonably conclude is that they happened at the same time . |
| 8 | It is thought that many of the jury became wealthy men , through bribes by both Blount and Dudley , so that they arrived at the same conclusion — a conclusion that ‘ After a searching enquiry , they could find no presumption of evil doing . ’ |
| 9 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 10 | No doubt Temple remembered that once they stood on the same platform at Cambridge . |
| 11 | I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse . |
| 12 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 13 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |
| 14 | There were three women and they died at the same time so God goes cos you do n't all three of you do n't so , erm , the first one goes : I wan na go back to Earth thousand times are better so she goes back as a President , right ? |
| 15 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
| 16 | He listened to what she said and they laughed at the same things . |
| 17 | the , yeah , twenty I mean , well that one goes different and they started at the same edge , ah two twenty twos oh |
| 18 | Denis wondered sometimes if they came from the same father and mother . |
| 19 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 20 | In classifying people as persistent readers , we have allowed them to switch between different individual papers , provided they stayed with the same paper-type . |
| 21 | In such phrases one sees a characteristic Tolkienian strength : his ideas were often paradoxical and had deep intellectual roots , but they appealed at the same time to simple things and to everyday experience . |
| 22 | Herbert Tempest asked readers for information on George Whitbread , a man he lost touch with 40 years ago after they served in the same RAF squadron . |
| 23 | Now the , the pensions when they raised at the same time , because we only pension raised every year , and we 're up there at that particular time at the Lothian region , a full council meeting . |
| 24 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 25 | He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce . |
| 26 | They put on separate roadshows as they appeared at the same event for the first time since Mr Major 's statement in the House of Commons . |
| 27 | ‘ Your lips are even redder now , ’ he murmured , his face close to hers as they crouched over the same clump of fruit . |