Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 2 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 3 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 4 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 5 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 6 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 7 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 8 | There had been sporadic contact even before the 1850s treaties , and subsequent relations had been on the same unequal basis as those with the other powers . |
| 9 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 10 | However , the proportions cautioned were about the same ( at about 6 per cent . ) |
| 11 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 12 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 13 | Well , Walter had been through the same things , but he wanted to put them down on paper . |
| 14 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 15 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |