Example sentences of "his [noun] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Academically there was n't anything to shout from the ceilings , in fact I do n't think that he found the work easy , but there was a dedication there that some of his contemporaries of the same ability could have used . |
| 2 | The possession of a cow or two , with a hog and a few geese , naturally exalts the peasant in his own conception , above his brethren in the same rank of society … |
| 3 | Ion Aurel Stoica , leader of the government 's negotiating team and Minister of State for the Quality of Life and Social Security , offered his resignation on the same day but it was rejected by Roman . |
| 4 | There had been concern about his progress at the same stage as there now was for Balbinder 's . |
| 5 | Her pulses were racing madly as he watched him tug his tie undone with a rough impatience , shrug off his jacket and begin to dispose of his shirt in the same cool , determined style . |
| 6 | Cotton marketed himself and his talents in the same way . |
| 7 | He was the archetypal theoretical physicist : it was said of him that even his presence in the same town would make experiments go wrong ! |
| 8 | Rory smiled , sucking air through his teeth at the same time , clinked one thumbnail against his glass . |
| 9 | Joel Garner was , in fact , almost at the end had begun back in 1976–7 against Pakistan when he made his debut in the same game as Colin Croft . |
| 10 | ‘ Tommy Taylor made his debut in the same game as me . |
| 11 | His pale grey silk shirt hung from slackened shoulders , ruffling against his chest with the same hot breeze that ruffled her own thin blouse softly against her heaving breast . |
| 12 | If he is not saying that he would repeal the increase in VAT , he is simply speaking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time . |
| 13 | And then , of course , there is Steve Bone blowing as many saxes as he can fit in his mouth at the same time . |
| 14 | Churchill inspired but also unnerved his listeners at the same time by painting the prospects of the armed struggle in darker and more dramatic tones than might seem necessary or desirable . |
| 15 | Still I suppose you could say he suffered for his religion in the same way I suffer for my art . |
| 16 | In many cases the buildings show the Nordic influence of the long house with farm buildings attached , sheltering man and his animals under the same roof , and the gallery may be on the house or barn . |
| 17 | Immacolata said it glowed prettily , the light was flattering , and this recollection passed across his mind at the same time as he registered the woman 's contorted face , her blotched cheeks and veined eyes , and began to hear what she was saying : |
| 18 | The book , as we gather from a plan in his notebooks of the same period , was to deal with four large areas : ethics ; aesthetics ; religion and mythology ; and politics , law and education . |
| 19 | One has the sense that he himself was beached there and that one of his comforts lay in writing out his fears in order to bring his readers to the same sands where he lay struggling for air . |
| 20 | His work at the same time marks a break with conventional theorisations of power . |
| 21 | Your letter was a great joy to me , a message from another human being who approaches his work with the same seriousness as I do mine , and who has consequently suffered as much under the insanities of our time … |
| 22 | There a 15-year-old Jehovah 's Witness , and his parents of the same faith , were refusing to allow doctors to give the boy a blood transfusion without which there was a strong risk ( on the medical evidence ) that the boy would die . |
| 23 | Although he came to Parliaments regularly enough , he spent his last twenty years running his diocese with the same competent mediocrity by which he had come by it . |
| 24 | He carried a colour photograph of his mill in the same way that others carry their wives and children . |
| 25 | She treated his body with the same gentle reverence as he had used : her soft capable hands caressing him as she massaged the oil into his skin . |
| 26 | David Elsworth is lucky to have such a superb performer as Barnbrook Again in his string at the same time as Desert Orchid . |
| 27 | It could n't be easy to cope with the emotional strain of a missing husband and do his job at the same time . |
| 28 | In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army … |
| 29 | Uttering a low , violent oath , he grabbed Isabel 's arm and yanked her behind him , drawing his sword at the same time . |
| 30 | Too many things demanded his attention at the same rime . |