Example sentences of "her [noun] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , if Germany did become the true economic locomotive of Europe , then she could demand support from Europe if her economic strength ever began to falter , thus exploiting her weakness in the same way as she will exploit her strength . |
| 2 | Again , if I call my mother and her sister by the same term ( 'mother' ) , then both behave maternally towards me — though not necessarily with the same intensity of feeling . |
| 3 | On the way home from school that afternoon she began to mull over the various possibilities , and when at last the germ of a brilliant idea hit her , she began to expand on it and lay her plans with the same kind of care the Duke of Wellington had done before the Battle of Waterloo . |
| 4 | Caroline tossed back her head , curved her lips into the same sort of bright smile she wore on the catwalk , and took Sabatini 's outstretched arm . |
| 5 | Her husband Chris won nearly £750,000 damages over her loss in the same award . |
| 6 | She straightened , holding the small of her back and her bulge at the same time . |
| 7 | She was looking for the opportunity to extend her holdings in Glasgow , but she was unsure if she wanted to expand her business in the same district as her first premises — perhaps she ought to move upmarket , rather like her London operation . |
| 8 | George Stacey is charged with murdering Christine Campbell on the 19 of November , Martin Stacey with concealing her body on the same date . |
| 9 | One woman found that when different family members were all demanding different things and her attention at the same time , ‘ something blows ’ . |
| 10 | If in a particular language a woman referred to a large number of men other than her husband by the same term as the one she used for her husband , this implied , for Morgan and Engels , that in an earlier stage of this system , a woman would have been wife to all of these men . |
| 11 | Almost violently , she raised her body , ducking her head at the same time , her feverish lips seeking the scorching lure of his again , the demand for his kiss born out of an intuitive need to let him silence her , so that he might not hear the words and other sounds which would tell him just how complete his dominion of her senses already was . |
| 12 | The boy bowed again , enjoying her astonishment in the same way he had enjoyed the applause of the T'ang earlier that day when he had played Tsu Tiao . |
| 13 | and she was having her drink at the same time |
| 14 | Gozitan legend says that a giantess built the temples single-handed , suckling her baby at the same time . |
| 15 | She tried to pray for her father at the same time , but Madeleine danced across her invocation , Madeleine provocative in yellow piqué and high-heeled sandals disrupted her holy words . |
| 16 | An instant later she recalled the forty-year-old lady , who twenty-five years earlier had stood in the same place and had waved at her father in the same way . |
| 17 | She leaned forward , her hair falling across her face , and as he lifted his head she brought her lips down on his , parting them with her tongue at the same moment as she felt his hands unzipping her jeans . |
| 18 | Iskandara took her hands away from her face and glared at her daughter with the same light , bright aqua-marine eyes that looked out from her mother 's portrait . |
| 19 | Violet saw her mistake about the same time as the card . |
| 20 | And Harriet Shakespeare , stumbling over the rough ground towards them , raised her voice at the same moment and yelled , ‘ Tug darling , it 's all right . |
| 21 | Perhaps she had known it would happen , perhaps he had answered her call for the same reason . |
| 22 | She gritted her teeth , held her hands in the same position . |
| 23 | Now Rhoda had stopped work she would go down to the newsagent on the corner for her cigarettes at the same time every morning , each day a little lighter on her feet . |
| 24 | The first few days after the burial she had felt like dying herself , mostly of shame , but she had set about her tasks with the same efficiency as always , and if she did n't speak to anyone it was because words would have brought fresh tears . |
| 25 | She tried to go about her tasks with the same thoroughness as before , but too often her mind strayed from what she was doing , and promotion became less and less likely . |
| 26 | Her case for the defence is notably restrained , unlike her treatment of the same subject in Dickon , a play published posthumously in 1953 . |
| 27 | Similarly if in a language a woman referred to her son by the same term as she used for the son of her sister , this showed that the system of terms developed at a time when the two sisters would have been co-wives of the same man or men . |
| 28 | Blanche reappeared just after four , throwing off her coat and beckoning Dexter into her office in the same gesture . |