Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 3 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 4 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 5 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 6 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 7 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 8 | They demanded bracket construction for the overhead wires , but this was turned down for the same reasons as those in Mitcham . |
| 9 | But this also breaks down for the same reason and so we resolve the problem by taking what is valid from thesis and antithesis to form a synthesis . |
| 10 | Booze companies fear that tobacco 's closest relation may be in for the same treatment : there have been rumours that a directive is being prepared . |
| 11 | After dinner we continued to fiddle around with tackle and were joined by Mr. Ferguson and his son , Paul , who were also booked in for the same week . |
| 12 | but still have to four phone in for the same purpose , are you with me ? |
| 13 | Some of the audience calmly fetched additional chairs from a store and we each sat holding our stacking chair over our heads until the shower subsided , in about the same time it took the film rain to subside . |
| 14 | Two substances that look about the same under light , or in other words , reflect light in about the same way , may be totally different in regard to how much sound they absorb or reflect . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although your skin might feel a bit taut after washing , the skin oils rebound in about the same time , too . |
| 17 | You saw in fact the lady as you came in about the same time as you came in who does that . |
| 18 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 19 | What I certainly would n't see in Shetland were snow buntings carrying food in below the same boulders as the puffins , while their mates sang their lovely wild song from the top . |
| 20 | Ground beetles — normally fierce predators — often bed down with the same insects that they hunt in warmer seasons . |
| 21 | Although , if it was a French war , might it also be assumed that the Vietnamese , whose tendency to sit on the fence was the subject of American as well as French complaint , would want to join in with the same enthusiasm that they would give to a national cause ? |
| 22 | The only other fictional world I lived in with the same intensity was that of Louisa M. Alcott . |
| 23 | Turning inbound the VOR indicator needle will roll in from the same side as you . |
| 24 | Compare the description of the agony in In the Same boat ( a story the end of which is truer to the experience than i– the end of The Brushwood Boy ) : ‘ Suppose you were a violin string — vibrating — and someone put his finger on you ’ with the image of the ‘ banjo string drawn tight ’ for the breaking wave in The finest Story in the World . |
| 25 | He was too alert not to catch the look and he was swift enough to look down in the same instant at his cup . |
| 26 | Its weakness was its technical conservatism ; although in 1880 the Admiralty agreed to reintroduce breechloading guns on heavy ships , the armoured cruisers Impérieuse and Warspite , which were laid down in the same year , were still designed to carry a full spread of sail . |
| 27 | To get into the medieval way of things and because it 's cheap , we all camp down in the same room hence this is not a society for the bashful ( light sleepers are advised ear plugs ) . |
| 28 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 29 | But the most important thing I thought was the thought process I mean just just saying this while you were just going on I just jotted down in the same way you could come off with three ideas that around and I felt that was that was ideal . |
| 30 | Total sales for the first two months of 1991 at 287,876 were nearly 23 per cent down on the same period in 1990 . |