Example sentences of "i [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got out back , it 's all sheltered , next door 's got more for years to put them down the front , my wife wo n't let me for the same reason she says if you blind yourself then any bugger can come in . |
| 2 | ‘ Stephen 's determined to open a hotel chain and listens to me about the same amount . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Am I in the same room ? ’ she asked . |
| 4 | One upper-class motherless boy moved to live with a great-uncle who ‘ treated me with the same affection which he would have given to a son . |
| 5 | They viewed me with the same puzzled look as I later saw on the faces of nomads miles from civilization . |
| 6 | Dear Guitarist I have been meaning to write to your fine mag for a long time , but whenever I was about to put pen to paper someone else got there before me with the same topic . |
| 7 | She regards me with the same bright smile as her child 's , but tears are rolling down her face and her eyes say , ‘ I 'm losing her . ’ |
| 8 | Gav — who probably epitomised thick-skulledness , though admittedly would not be amongst one 's first fifteen when it came to offering proof of heavy traffic within the central nervous system — opened one bleary eye and focused on me with the same accuracy one has grown to expect from security forces aiming baton rounds at protesters ' legs . |
| 9 | After some thought he said ; ‘ Well , I have a daughter your age , and if she were to come to me with the same question I would advise her to terminate . ’ |
| 10 | Joe made room for me with the same amount of good grace he might have afforded an enemy invading his castle and we sat for a few minutes without speaking , inspecting the view . |
| 11 | I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . |
| 12 | She recalled his saying , ‘ I want you to love and desire me with the same degree of passion that Lucia loved and desired my namesake . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ DO N'T MENTION me in the same paragraph as Ace ! ’ |
| 14 | No one mentioned it was essential training as a motoring correspondent to have a car crash , but it happened to me in the same gruesome circumstances that confront hundreds of motorists every week . |
| 15 | ‘ I feel very angry that you always see me in the same negative way . |
| 16 | The aim is to have about three suits per series — I certainly do n't want to come prancing on every week in something different , but neither do I want people to groan when they see me in the same old suit . |
| 17 | He quoted me in the same paragraph , but somehow omitted some key words about the commitment of both Novell and USL to preserving the business model by which USL serves its licensees . |
| 18 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 19 | I turned back to find Yvonne 's grinning face looking past me in the same direction . |
| 20 | He was reaching out from death to hurt me in the same old way , only this time I did n't have to know . |
| 21 | Mbanefo was a splendid man of total integrity and his colleagues impressed me in the same way . |
| 22 | It shocked me in the same way as Room at the Top shocked me when I read it last year . |
| 23 | If lightning did strike me in the same minute , it would be treated as a miracle . |
| 24 | I can not believe my luck that nobody else had the sense to carry you off but that you should still be there for me and that — ’ Well , that could be taken two ways , on second thoughts that might not be the thing to say , no ; ‘ my luck that you should want me in the same way that I want you . |
| 25 | They put me in the same category as Martinho . |
| 26 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 27 | Bauthumley , who believes God speaks directly through him , offers his own writing as an imitative model to others ‘ that travell with me in the same birth ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you dare put me in the same bracket as Terry Lewis ! |
| 29 | You will ask yourself , ‘ If I listen to my best friend within and follow the precepts , will he lead me to the same holiness as those whose life was dedicated to the light ? ’ |
| 30 | Uncle Joe subjected me to the same torture and humiliation every time we were alone together — although , thankfully , he never actually went as far as raping me . |