Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [noun sg] with the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the number of mergers that have happened over recent years , it 's becoming a rare event when a firm can celebrate its centenary with the same name it started out with . |
| 2 | Your letter was a great joy to me , a message from another human being who approaches his work with the same seriousness as I do mine , and who has consequently suffered as much under the insanities of our time … |
| 3 | So a wild horse will learn to ask for food in the same way as a domestic horse that it may be stabled with , and older foals learn to copy their mothers , and demand their oats with the same imperious neigh . |
| 4 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 5 | She treated his body with the same gentle reverence as he had used : her soft capable hands caressing him as she massaged the oil into his skin . |
| 6 | The shepherd ‘ pulls ’ the wool from his ‘ pretty lambs ’ , an experience which I imagine would not be too pleasant for the creatures but to him it is as if the sheep offer their wool with the same eagerness as he offers his gifts . |
| 7 | Interested , I asked him to whack my bottom with the same instrument and urged him to do it properly so that I could feel what it was like — he did so and I was only just able to restrain my tears it hurt so much . |
| 8 | She makes my tea with the same water she boils the eggs , she says she do n't but I know better and you know what that does . |