Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] have [verb] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told her that I was surprised at that because my Mum had said the same and I had n't believed her . |
| 2 | I suppose I am plump — according to the ‘ Height and Weight ’ charts I am on the heavy side of OK , but my weight has stayed the same since I was fourteen , so I know it 's not true that I 'm overeating , or greedy . |
| 3 | If one of my staff had done the same thing I do believe I 'd have fired him . |
| 4 | And so many of my friends have said the same . |
| 5 | But basically , my thing has stayed the same because I 've got really used to it , although it 's not even all that efficient . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | My soldiers had inherited the same genes from the present queen as those old soldiers had inherited from the ancestral queens . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Sue Ramsden and Clive Snee found that most unemployed men said their health had stayed the same since losing their jobs in 1978 and roughly equivalent small proportions thinking it had got worse or better . |
| 9 | His eyes had turned the same colour and I caught a whiff of that strange perfume which sometimes emanated from him , sweet but sickly . |
| 10 | More recently in Cinnamond v. British Airports Authority his Lordship has invoked the same type of reasoning , stating that operators of cabs at an airport had no legitimate expectation which would warrant granting them a hearing . |
| 11 | Doubtless many of his victims had believed the same . |
| 12 | Our wheat and our maize have experienced the same fate that befell our apples and pears . |