Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] to the same " in BNC.

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1 Inevitably it came down to the same couple of answers — her mortgage , her job .
2 The latter came in to the same platform and so two trains were in the same section , in conflict with Rule B.
3 ROBIN Smith 's majestic 167 not out won all the plaudits at Edgbaston yesterday but today England 's cricketers woke up to the same old problems .
4 It came back to the same thing .
5 He was awarded his first degree by the college where he was now a fellow , spent a year in the United States , and came back to the same college to complete his PhD .
6 Even more basic , though , was the pressure on a Celtic team playing for their dignity and self respect and who did so in such a convincing manner that all diagnoses of the final result came back to the same conundrum , where does the level of commitment shown against Rangers go when Liam Brady needs it most ?
7 Melanie tuned in to the same image and whispered : ‘ Go on , pick a card , any card , ’ in a Tommy Cooper voice .
8 As I suppose was inevitable , the story gradually became that Eric would set fire to them , not just their pet dogs ; and , as was probably also inevitable , a lot of kids started to think that I was Eric , or that I got up to the same tricks .
9 After the furriers we all trooped off to the same dentist who X-rayed our teeth which was unusual in Britain then .
10 She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine .
11 But they went back to the same orphanages which were grim.There was a determination to help them .
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