Example sentences of "same [noun] [that] [vb past] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Woil 's voice , desperate to see the same fear that had stopped him finding freedom now overtaking Creggan . |
| 2 | Anna 's mother died shortly after childbirth ( the same fate that had befallen her father 's mother ) and the father and daughter developed a close and mutually productive lifelong relationship . |
| 3 | Or would that not be defying fate ? … the same fate that had reversed his own fortunes that very night ? |
| 4 | They were the same officers that had arrested me for the charge I was on . |
| 5 | Caterina judged then , as she watched Rosa pin her hair , that the ease with which she , Caterina , won applause — when she danced and sang the cherry song , or strewed flowers before the host in the procession , making a little reverence to the monstrance on every third step backwards — was undeserved , the effect of some trick she did not want to perform but that came to her naturally from some evil in her , the same evil that had inspired her bad thoughts of Tommaso and prevented her doing as her sister , her beloved sister , wanted . |
| 6 | Men might reject the guiding hand of Providence and increasingly take control of their own lives , but death , when it came to them or their loved ones , had the same countenance that had frightened their ancestors . |
| 7 | When they ignore the whole idea of pandering to a European market , they can be quite good , as in Tarkovsky 's Italian-funded productions , where he just carried on making the same film that had obsessed him for the past 30 years , only a bit more slowly . |
| 8 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |