Example sentences of "the [det] [conj] [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah the , the less but I still think there 's a fundamental problem with drawing the distinction |
| 2 | Bill : I was the same but I still find that I 'm totally different from people who think of sex as just screwing . |
| 3 | In any case , the reasons for regarding the idea of numerical identity and that of numerical diversity as significant are not such as might enable us to decide unequivocally whether something observed on one occasion is numerically the same as something else observed on a different occasion , or how many ontological objects are involved in a given case . |
| 4 | The ‘ Nicolson ’ is being dropped , but other than that the books are very much the same as they always have been . |
| 5 | I stared into the mirror , expecting to see huge marks like red flowers blazing on my mouth where I had been kissed , but I looked just the same as I always did . |
| 6 | Life was the same as it ever had been . |
| 7 | Nobody believes his story , of course — he looks the same as he always has done . |
| 8 | Probably the same as you just had . |
| 9 | ‘ You look much the same as you always looked . ’ |
| 10 | Some things needed to change , but some needed to remain the same and I usually found myself in this place pulling at the forces of change as a child might pull at the reins of a runaway horse . |
| 11 | and the format would be the same and you just have different names on the top here |
| 12 | Except that his face , with those tobacco-stained looking eyes and drooping moustache , was always the same and you never knew what he was thinking . |