Example sentences of "[verb] [be] the same [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area .
2 Urgently needed is the same kind of attention paid to the literature of the western country that has one of the most resilient Africanist populations in the world — a population that has always had a curiously intimate and unhingingly separate existence within the dominant one .
3 I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them .
4 ( Critics assume that the other man involved is the same man to whom Sonnets 1–126 have been addressed ; and some also assume that the three people involved in this series ( 133 , 134 , 135 , 143 , 144 ) are the same three involved in the earlier series ( 41 , 42 ) .
5 It had been the same sum for years .
6 And the heron you see is the same colour to me as the grass .
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