Example sentences of "be born in the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was there that he met up with William 's younger brother John — they were contemporaries , having both been born in the same year — and began a friendship that ended only with John 's death in 1793 . |
| 2 | We discovered a strange fortuity : her mother and my father had been born in the same town of Dumfries and , moreover , we had a marriage connection — her cousin had married my cousin 's cousin ! |
| 3 | The search for the inspirational sources of Jack Nicholson the artist , and Jack Nicholson the man , takes us on a far more diverse journey than some of his contemporaries , like Robert Redford , Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman , who were born in the same year — 1937 . |
| 4 | The two men were born in the same region , the Transkei , but whereas Mr Mandela was a distinguished personage of royal blood , Mr Sisulu came from an impoverished peasant family and engaged in politics as a consequence of his exposure to the daily indignities of life for blacks through his work in a dairy , a bakery , in mines and factories . |
| 5 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 6 | ‘ He was born in the same town as me , ’ he says . |