Example sentences of "[noun] had [been] [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | When test results did not confirm this , they could still console themselves with the fact that every child had been given the same opportunity to learn . |
| 2 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 3 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 4 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 5 | A decade or so previously , Nizan had been taught the same bitter lesson . |
| 6 | If BP boss Sir Peter Walters had been paid the same proportion of sales he would have received a salary of £8.1billion . |
| 7 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |