Example sentences of "[noun] had [verb] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 2 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 3 | The social groups C2DE still make up 57 per cent of the electorate ; if Labour had enjoyed the same dominance among these voters as do the Tories in social groups ABC1 , they would have swept to power with a big majority . |
| 4 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 5 | He told us that " if only the car industry had achieved the same improvements in price performance since the war as the electronics industry , a 1980 Rolls Royce would only cost 2 pence . " |
| 6 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 7 | His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years . |
| 8 | Two promoters had obtained the same A G ( all mutations are indicated for the upper strand ) substitution at position -65 , two promoters had obtained an A G substitution at -72 , three promoters had obtained double mutations : A G at -65 together with C T at -1 , A G at -65 with C T at +4 and A G at -65 together with A G at -33 . |
| 9 | Coun George Robinson claimed that if the council had received the same level of Government support grant that it had in the 1970s , the poll tax would have been about £100 . |
| 10 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 11 | Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled . |
| 12 | Hawthorn and oak had colonised the same embankment . |
| 13 | Whatever the nature of their relationship , it was clear that husband and wife had shared the same flat . |
| 14 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 15 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 16 | Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book . |
| 17 | As soon as he 'd switched the light off , Zeno had taken the same route through the yard as Sophie had done a little earlier . |
| 18 | If Neil Kinnock had won the same level of support from manual workers and their families as Harold Wilson achieved in the 1960s , he would be in Downing Street today . |
| 19 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 20 | ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them . |
| 21 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 22 | I began to imagine that the landlord , being about to emigrate , might murder us to get our money … ’ and claims that Johnson had entertained the same fears , although Johnson never mentions such thoughts . |
| 23 | ‘ If the rest of the hierarchy had maintained the same level of charity and civilised control as Dr Runcie , Gareth Bennett might well be alive today . ’ |
| 24 | He told his fellow prisoners of an attack on a colonial settlement where the creatures had made the same noises just before they raided and massacred the colonists . |
| 25 | According to reliable sources , but unknown to Jack , at least three other signalmen had experienced the same chain of events , but all had kept their frightening experiences to themselves to avoid the ridicule of their workmates . |
| 26 | Most of the new members had held the same portfolios in the Council of Ministers , including Marshal Dmitry Yazov as Defence Minister , Sergei Lushchikov as Justice Minister , and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov as chair of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |
| 27 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 28 | It was er he had had it since my grandfather had had the same place as a blacksmith 's shop and then my father followed on with the garage with cycles first of all , and then when the motor trade came in , he started in motors repairing . |
| 29 | ( To be frank , Alistair had had the same fantasy the previous Friday , at which time , presumably , Offensive from Quasar 13 was still being booted round the floor of the sub post office ) . |
| 30 | Six weeks before the October general election , figures in mid-September showed that inflation had dropped sharply in August , rising only 0.2 per cent , while unemployment had fallen the same month to 16.6 per cent of the active workforce , the lowest level since 1982 . |