Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I met them at the same time , ’ Tim recalls .
2 I sold them for the same price that I had paid myself .
3 you probably got them from the same place .
4 First of all Gyggle tried me on the same sort of rudimentary exercises that I remembered performing as a child .
5 But Garvey , 40 , has brought a private prosecution against Carr , 33 , alleging Carr assaulted him in the same incident in Middlesbrough Town Hall in October .
6 I needed to come up with a solution which avoided this overly defined focal point and used it at the same time .
7 When the community care Support Force was inaugurated , many SSDs regarded it with the same amount of suspicion and distrust as a bird would a snake .
8 But Rutherford hooked well , Crowe provided several of his best cover-drives , the groundstaff captured a dog before it could interfere with play , and Tufnell 's effort to prevent a boundary by slide-tackling the ball had the same result as when he tried it on the same ground a year ago : four .
9 One this girl traced my hand and I traced hers at the same time — I went very slowly , which triggered her ticklishness , and she laughed every time my pencil made it to the place between two of her fingers , but she was brave , she stayed put .
10 Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me .
11 I used to wear jeans and jackets and shirts but my parents burned them on the same day my dad beat me up , and after that I had to wear saris .
12 ‘ I heard that , ’ she told him in the same language .
13 They were watching her intently , with a look that disconcerted her and excited her at the same time .
14 I could get tired of even roulette if I always played it in the same place . ’
15 ‘ Oh , in cash , he paid me on the same day , insisted on doing so .
16 He paid it in the same spirit that he washed himself-obsessively .
17 A Country Diary : OXFORDSHIRE : On the first morning of this month , whilst watching the usual passage of gulls to the local refuse-dump , I spotted a flock of waders , estimated at between 300 and 400 , much higher up and heading due south , and , a matter of seconds later , a similar party followed them on the same course , and I was able to identify them as Golden Plover .
18 He addressed her in the same way as he had her mistress , with the deference due to age .
19 If I contacted him on the same number that I contacted you
20 It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year .
21 both , really I think they both hit you at the same time
22 BARRY WILSON turned in a star performance as Stantondale increased their lead at the top of the second division last week - and afterwards his managers furnished him with the same compliment : ‘ He 's class . ’
23 The conclusion that there was not going to be any hit him at the same time as Rincewind , whirring wildly down the passage , kicked him sharply in the groin .
24 He said nothing , forked another fish , swallowed it with the same indifference he might appropriate to putting out the rubbish .
25 Graziano , 68 , won the world title in 1947 with a sixth-round knock-out of Tony Zale but lost it to the same fighter less than a year later .
26 Alison met him in the same bar .
27 Saw them at the same time , change of address .
28 She saw them at the same moment and hesitated , then she turned and began walking back the way she had come .
29 One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son .
30 According to the survey results , for the 12 months ending in January this year , 51 per cent of Britain 's smaller exporters increased their overseas sales over those for the previous year , a further 23 per cent kept them at the same level and 26 per cent reported a drop .
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