Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child . |
| 2 | Oh it is true , but it did , it did do it , but that was the other day and I did n't think that they had the same effect , no , well perhaps so , mind you I mean we have done a lot of walking , have n't we ? |
| 3 | Hubble noted that certain types of stars always have the same luminosity when they are near enough for us to measure ; therefore , he argued , if we found such stars in another galaxy , we could assume that they had the same luminosity — and so calculate the distance to that galaxy . |
| 4 | He was interested to find that they shared the same distrust , perhaps the same revulsion . |
| 5 | The difference was , of course , that they shared the same land mass , and were directly connected to each other by transcontinental tracks . |
| 6 | Sometimes she would climax first , sometimes he , and on good nights they would explode together so that they felt the same tingling in the very tips of their toes and even then he 'd had to remember to withdraw — just in case . |
| 7 | Remains of older persons present more of a problem , and when dealing with earlier populations , it is difficult to be sure that significant age-changes took place at the same time , and that they showed the same group variability , as in modem populations . |
| 8 | In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed . |
| 9 | Whatever the truth behind that story , in July 1990 Rob Lowe showed the world that he had the same kind of concerns and cares as everyone else when he made a surprise and last-minute appearance at the Knebworth Charity Festival where Elton John and Phil Collins were among the artists performing . |
| 10 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 11 | But his main qualification for cleaning up Argentina 's economic mess is that he did the same job ( rather badly ) in a short-lived government a quarter of a century ago . |