Example sentences of "same [noun] as we [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , they are played but not , not very often , and they are treated not with the same respect as we treat them . |
| 2 | If we start the New Year in the same way as we finished it , I 'll be well pleased . |
| 3 | So we busy ourselves about the house or go on holiday in much the same way as we do our jobs . |
| 4 | The saga , which was illustrated with his own naïve pen-and-ink drawings , had its origins in the compassion he had felt for the sufferings of the animals in the past war ( ‘ If we made [ them ] take the same chances as we did ourselves , why did we not give them similar attention when wounded ? ’ ) and in the letters about an imaginary horse surgery that he had written home from the front to his two children , Elizabeth and Colin ( the latter of whom habitually called himself Dr Dolittle ) . |
| 5 | E/A turned and made off East at the same time as we sighted him . |
| 6 | Er , now to move on to events that have happened since the , er , annual report was printed many of you will no doubt have seen in the press that the same time as we announced our results at the end of March that we agreed to buy , er , the Alton Towers theme park er , in Staffordshire , from John , for sixty million pounds er , the purchase has now been completed . |
| 7 | However , these flows may be ultimately recycled into the domestic circular flow because governments invariably spend what they raise in taxation , because expenditure on investment goods is frequently financed out of current saving , and because other countries often spend on domestically produced goods and services at the same time as we purchase their products . |
| 8 | And do n't forget that our users may not even speak the same language as we take our systems enterprise wide . |