Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
| 2 | The proportion of issues in dollars dropped in 1990 to 39.5% from 56% in 1989 , while yen bonds doubled their share in the same period , to 12% . |
| 3 | Sure enough , they dropped their sticks at the same moment and ran across to the downriver side of the bridge to watch for the winner . |
| 4 | England 's under-16 side opened their section at the same venue with an impressive 8–0 victory over Scotland after scoring six goals before the interval . |
| 5 | The Chairmaster shrugged his shoulders and shook his head at the same time , finally dislodging the reluctant wig . |
| 6 | Caroline tossed back her head , curved her lips into the same sort of bright smile she wore on the catwalk , and took Sabatini 's outstretched arm . |
| 7 | And Harriet Shakespeare , stumbling over the rough ground towards them , raised her voice at the same moment and yelled , ‘ Tug darling , it 's all right . |
| 8 | Churchill inspired but also unnerved his listeners at the same time by painting the prospects of the armed struggle in darker and more dramatic tones than might seem necessary or desirable . |
| 9 | The constable grabbed it from him and grabbed his arm at the same time . |
| 10 | Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher . |
| 11 | Mr Lamont delivered his punch from the same seat from which Lord Howe , in his resignation speech in 1990 , fatally wounded Lady Thatcher . |
| 12 | Indeed , he had , in fact , smashed one of their violins when he lost his temper for the same reason in the previous year . |
| 13 | Initially the Germans were more proficient at this than the Allies , for they kept their snipers in the same sector for long periods so they became familiar with the enemy 's trench systems there , while the Allies rotated their snipers with the units to which they belonged . |
| 14 | The income did not change its nature just because the trustees took their expenses from the same . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc , Hewlett-Packard Co and IBM Corp all grew their shares over the same period . |
| 16 | Sun , Hewlett and IBM all grew their shares over the same period . |
| 17 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 18 | Violet saw her mistake about the same time as the card . |
| 19 | Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Ion Aurel Stoica , leader of the government 's negotiating team and Minister of State for the Quality of Life and Social Security , offered his resignation on the same day but it was rejected by Roman . |
| 22 | Joel Garner was , in fact , almost at the end had begun back in 1976–7 against Pakistan when he made his debut in the same game as Colin Croft . |
| 23 | ‘ Tommy Taylor made his debut in the same game as me . |
| 24 | Karl-Heinz Kretschmer resigned as the ( CDU ) deputy Minister President of Brandenburg following accusations that he too had been involved with the Stasi , and two PDS deputies in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament , Gunter Scholz and Rolf Funda , resigned their seats for the same reason on the recommendation of the party . |
| 25 | The two Choices — both 11-year-olds but unrelated despite the name similarity — won their races in the same front-running style and finished in identical times . |
| 26 | They had one son and three daughters ; their son , John Bridge Aspinall , became a QC , as did his grandfather of the same name , and he was for five years the city remembrancer until his early death in 1932 . |
| 27 | Like the NL this too was a secret society and had its headquarters at the same address in licensed premises in Lamb 's Conduit Street , London . |
| 28 | She gritted her teeth , held her hands in the same position . |