Example sentences of "[vb past] the same way " in BNC.
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| 1 | Check to see that they are secure and looped the same way on each half of the kite . |
| 2 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 3 | The last time they went to the rock , everything began the same way as usual . |
| 4 | In 1891 the tenor bell was recast by the bell founders Mears & Stainbank at a cost of £30 , being shipped to London by barge and returned the same way . |
| 5 | On 10 March 1736 the Revd James Clegg , a Nonconformist minister and apothecary from Chinley in the heart of the Peak District , noted in his diary : ‘ An ancient man came for advice and brought a water [ a urine sample ? ] from beyond Southwell in Nottinghamshire , on foot , about 36 miles ’ ; no doubt he returned the same way . |
| 6 | ‘ I started the same way last year , ’ he said . |
| 7 | I talked the same way at his age , fighting my rogue aitches and glottal stops . |
| 8 | It was never still and no two waves rose and broke the same way . |
| 9 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 10 | ‘ The tramp with him , Harry Mack , died the same way . ’ |
| 11 | A Royal Ulster Constabulary officer on traffic duty in Belcoo , Co Fermanagh , last November and another policeman near Crossmaglen last month , also died the same way . |
| 12 | The ‘ central zone ’ went the same way during March , its collapse preceded by a second ‘ civil war within the Civil War ’ : a tragicomic affair in which ‘ rebels ’ under Colonel Casado , anxious to negotiate a surrender , engineered a coup and then clashed with Communists eager to fight to the last . |
| 13 | Liberal Theology went the same way , though it substituted the categories of Ritschl 's system for those of Hegel 's . |
| 14 | The two others continued till 1973 , when the closure of the Evening Citizen meant that no town outside London was supporting more than one evening paper — and London went the same way in 1980 . |
| 15 | In 1435 both Dieppe and Harfleur were taken by the French and in the next year Paris went the same way . |
| 16 | Besides these major groups , almost all the trilobites , the tentaculitids and several other brachiopod groups ( the orthids , pentamerids and stropheodontids ) went the same way . |
| 17 | This pledge was fulfilled in 1971 and thus the Land Commission went the same way as it predecessor , the Central Land Board . |
| 18 | ‘ He went the same way as your mother . ’ |
| 19 | Then a double take as Jack Russell went the same way for a disappointing 3 . |
| 20 | A third-round two-fisted torrent of punches got a tough James Phelan of Hull out of the way in the North-Eastern Counties finals , then Kirby 's Alan Ryder and the RAF 's Darren Rudd went the same way . |
| 21 | She knew she was in love with him , but did n't know if he felt the same way about her . |
| 22 | He obviously felt the same way , too , as we suddenly flung our arms around each other — we have n't stopped hugging since ! ’ |
| 23 | While Bob Lamb was longing for Sarah Butler to pay him some attention , he was unaware that Martha Oaks felt the same way about him . |
| 24 | In comparison , 60% of nursery-users and only 48% of childminder-users felt the same way . |
| 25 | I had one friend from another house who felt the same way as I did about the school and the whole process we were being put through . |
| 26 | He just had to hope that these nomes felt the same way . |
| 27 | She said the players felt the same way , and maybe seven or eight , including her husband , would want to leave if Mr Sugar succeeded in ousting Mr Venables . |
| 28 | But they did feel there was no harm in looking at other women — being mentally unfaithful — and thought their wives probably felt the same way . |
| 29 | Rosie felt the same way about her parents . |
| 30 | Ruth loved him as much as ever , and hoped against hope that he still felt the same way about her , but somehow , something had been lost . |