Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] to the same " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I certify that I have known Colour Serjeant William Nicholl late of the 8th ( or King 's ) Regiment for the space of ten years , six of which I belonged to the same Company and always considered him a man of most exemplary character .
2 I appeal to the same verbal trick as I used in Chapter 3 .
3 I went to the same school you 're going to now .
4 ‘ My parents left enough money to make sure I went to the same school as Elise , but I was never the academic type — too fond of games .
5 Perhaps he secretly thinks I belong to the same world .
6 Seven months later , on 28 September 1990 , I wrote to the same Chancellor of the Exchequer :
7 Her mother , her doctor and her psychotherapist say that it is vital for her well-being that next month she goes to the same primary school as her friends .
8 Bring towels and spare clothes , if you intend to the same as last year !
9 It was some time before the detective found your address ; you 've been very clever in not meeting here , but it was careless of you to go to the same hotel every time , even if you did sign in as Mr and Mrs Smith .
10 Hours later she woke to the same sensation of calm fulfilment .
11 If you eat more on some days and less on others , you will shed weight just as successfully as if you stuck to the same number of calories each day .
12 The author disguised herself as an eighty-year old and reports considerable discrimination in shops and on public transport which disappeared when she returned to the same situations in her normal persona .
13 I mean are you restricted to the same closing hours that other bars are outside college premises ?
14 It 's best if you keep to the same time each week for regular activities , though be prepared to be flexible about it .
15 You went to the same school as Guy Fawkes !
16 ‘ Now you go to the same playgrounds and schools where people called me a fag for being an actor and everybody as a Screen Actors Guild card falling out of their pocket .
17 There is nothing new in that ; we came to the same conclusion earlier when studying the field of a line charge .
18 We owe to the same Caesar the information that the Druids used the Greek alphabet ( 6.14 ) .
19 He was a , we belonged to the same shed .
20 We went to the same school — Geraldine was Head Girl and just about to leave and I was just beginning .
21 Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music .
22 And they make to the same place to their feed .
23 If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier .
24 If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier .
25 He said , and it 's really good , he said , cos I 'm , I 'm celebrating my fortieth birthday , he said , and I ring my boys , he said , and they listen to the same sort of music I do .
26 Most speakers would agree , I think , that Mary wore a red dress and Mary wore a blue dress were contraries ( assuming , of course , that they refer to the same occasion , and that Mary , as would be normal , wore only one dress at a time ) ; the colour terms refer to the predominant colour of the dress , and there can be only one predominant colour .
27 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 .
28 Yeah but they go to somewhere bloody they go to the same place every year and they have a real good time .
29 This man and my father had joined up on the same day , they went to the same school , played football together , both courted my mother and both fell in love with her — and she ended up marrying them both .
30 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 .
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