Example sentences of "were born [prep] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Particularly if you were born on the same day as this other girl in the hospital . ’
2 We were born on the same day , in the same place .
3 We were born on the same council estate — Shiregreen , in Sheffield , both ‘ well off ’ by council house standards first with a telly and matching frocks and knickers ) .
4 This idea has long since fallen out of favour ; it is much more likely that the two components of a pair were born at the same time and in the same region of space , from the same cloud of dust and gas .
5 But they also dislike those who were born into the same station in life , or further down , and who have n't risen as far as they have .
6 She and Cati were born into the same family , went to the same school , heard the same sermons on Sundays and feast days , and often confessed to the same priest ; but Cati liked to cover herself in guilt , a kind of protective clothing that her elder sister had once inspected , tried on for size , and then discarded .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 The same advantage can be taken of star clusters like the Pleiades and the Hyades : their component stars were born from the same gas clouds and must therefore be at the same distance from us .
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