Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Most people in bands have quite similar backgrounds and I reckon a lot of them shared the same experience as I did .
2 everyone got the same
3 It was too easy to gain access to a Company 's computer records when everyone used the same communications web .
4 He worked in another part of the factory , but everyone used the same coffee bar .
5 When I asked the self-same question .
6 I asked the same of Benjamin as we walked out of a postern gate of St Bartholomew 's back towards the river , but my master was only half-listening .
7 I applied the same methods here , watching people rather than talking to them , and I learnt many new things about the way humans interact .
8 ‘ But nobody appreciates more than me how Ian feels because I endured the same thing at exactly this time last year .
9 Of course , I made the latter up though I am still very proud of them ; a mailed fist , middle finger extended , and underneath the Latin motto ‘ In dubito curre ’ which , roughly translated , means ‘ In doubt , run ’ .
10 My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child .
11 I made the same mistake that I make , year after year .
12 I made the same point in the previous chapter but it may help if I give a concrete example .
13 I made the same mistake .
14 I made the most of this and did lots of work and piano and clarinet practice .
15 I disputed the latter with Tony who conceded that the differential existed more because it was ‘ expected ’ by customers than in any attempt to persuade them to buy the beer in preference to another .
16 Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night .
17 This evening , returning by the lane , I met the same cat .
18 Oddly enough I met the same warrant officer some years later when he was SWO on a station near Warboys and we had many a chuckle about that .
19 Mummy I got the all the children watching the pictures
20 I got the same overpowering sense of mortality when I went to my old school reunion last week .
21 A year later when I had Katie and I was married , I did n't want " to go to hospital in case I got the same treatment , but they were totally different .
22 ROS : I got the same as you .
23 I got the same punishment as people who are three times over the limit .
24 Well , actually , looking at the erm , premiums in the book , and it worked out that the total I was paying out in endowments , if I got the same level of cover under the protected savings plan , over twenty five years with living assurance , it was , it was only working about seven pound more , you know ,
25 No , the other end , yep I got the same chimney as you
26 I got the same , four .
27 I tried the same approach when we played at Runcorn this season … and we lost .
28 Of the two , I found the former much the more useful ; its alphabetical list of foods is easily referred to and includes such ‘ new ’ foods as quorn , fromage frais , hummus and tofu .
29 I found the same classificatory system in use with the same unconscious linguistic divisions being applied as I had learned in the mid-1950s .
30 For swatch 4 , I used the same yarn as for swatch 3 , but only every third row , and with card 4 locked on row one .
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