Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] was [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ And you knew Feargal , knew his name , knew he came from Slane , and assumed it was the same family . ’ |
2 | They 'd hardly believe it was the same man . ’ |
3 | I did n't know who the guy riding it was , but through my police issue 200 × 6000 macroscopic laser-prism binoculars I could see he was the same guy who had just bopped the doorman in the head . |
4 | Police believe it was the same man . |
5 | The one I saw it was the same plain . |
6 | To see her at work during the day , with her hair pulled straight back and no makeup on , and to hear her ticking off her girls if they were slacking , you would n't dream it was the same girl who was out dancing with a different partner every night . |
7 | She had no way of knowing it was the same man who had interrogated Madeleine , then made her his mistress , any more than Madeleine could know that her friend was in the building being interrogated by him . |
8 | Wherever she went it was the same story . |
9 | Although they were looking at the clump of bushes from a different angle now , she knew it was the same clump they had seen from the gate . |
10 | She had never known anything like the need that rent her , and she knew it was the same need that was racking Luke 's rigid body ; and still it escalated as they succumbed to a welter of tumultuous embraces , caresses and kisses , their staccato breathing punctuated by the sharp sounds of desire , their skin damp with perspiration . |
11 | ‘ I knew it was the same family , ’ he admitted . |
12 | Everybody knew the blind fiddler and he had always his kilt on and But after a while , I do n't know , the next time he came round I mind he had trousers on and we did n't think he was the same man at all , no . |
13 | He did n't think it was the same man . |
14 | As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead . |
15 | You would n't think it was the same month would you ? |
16 | I think it was the same drive that led me to invent a series of very complicated games with another school friend , Roger Ferneyhough . |
17 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
18 | If she remembered he was the same man whom her son had once employed , there was no way of telling from the awed reception she gave him . |
19 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
20 | Rory supposed it was the same thoughtlessness that had made dad and mum have him so much later than the rest of their children . |