Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] and [verb] [art] same " in BNC.

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1 But he never wanted to do anything but sit in his study , go to the university and give the same old lectures , year after year .
2 Encouraged by the finding of this tiny coin , I turned my attention to the second side of the pond and began the same operation along its full length .
3 With him in the dock and receiving the same sentences was his business partner , Benedict Marsh , also 28 .
4 I leave no footprints under the window and use the same ladder to shut the window and force the catch back . ’
5 Then he walked heavily on for a pace or two until his tracks merged with the cart-way , then he turned back along the ruts to the stream and did the same thing again , more lightly this time .
6 Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge .
7 Crouching again , he moved to the other side of the cabinet and repeated the same manoeuvre , craning his head to look out .
8 I 've had Banville thoroughly checked out , and I know he 's stayed at two other hotels on the island and done the same thing . ’
9 Circle the road and approach the same signal again .
10 So one would know one had the right answer only if someone else repeated the calculation and got the same answer , and that did not seem very likely !
11 In each case , our intuition agrees with Bolinger that the adjective acts to qualify the description inherent in the noun , rather than the entity identified by the noun ; one may readily agree that there is a significant contrast between these and the following adjectives , in predicative position , which he gives as instances of referent-qualification ( in our terms , instances where the adjective is straight-forwardly assigned to the entity of the subject and shares the same referential locus ) : ( 3 ) the student was eager the man was hungry the lawyer was criminal ( One might , though , add the comment that criminal is seldom used ascriptively of human beings as opposed to their actions . )
12 I put down the Mail , opened the Telegraph and found the same tale , though told in less lurid terms .
13 He said that dichloromethane , for instance , has a very short atmospheric lifetime , so it does not get into the stratosphere and cause the same problems as CFCs , carbon tetrachloride or 1,1,1-trichloroethane .
14 Of course we 've got the training and testing the same as in normal networks .
15 He said he had planned to use the back door , go through to reception , leave the letter and disappear the same way .
16 He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both .
17 Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead .
18 They have all been given legal status in the country and enjoy the same social welfare benefits as Nicaraguans .
19 Both were directors of the company and received the same salary and benefits .
20 According to this law , both partners in a marriage have a duty to help each other , must share the housework and have the same obligations and duties concerning the raising and education of their children .
21 Now he wished he had waited a year and a half and done the same thing here .
22 The £5.5 million star endured a heart-stopping few minutes against Genoa , crashing to the ground after a tackle and clutching the same knee in which he ruptured ligaments 16 months ago .
23 I 'd go up there every night and see the same films over and again .
24 You sees like cutting , you know you see these walls that are like that and they sort of go down like that and join a pillar and do the same again , just , instead of doing that you lay the soldiers across the top and you , you 've got to sort of cut the bricks in between ai n't ya ?
25 Part-time students take either one or two courses a year and attend the same daytime classes as full-time students .
26 So many times she had helped at the scene of an accident and felt the same need to be with people afterwards , just to be sure , as he said , that she was still alive .
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