Example sentences of "[pron] [was/were] [verb] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 2 | And I was born the same day . |
| 3 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking the same thing , ’ David said calmly . |
| 5 | But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then . |
| 6 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 7 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 8 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 9 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 10 | But someone was murdered the same day and that does matter . |
| 11 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 12 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 13 | One particular test at hand for critics is the way Nelson is approached : references to him in the conversation of Aubrey and his fellow officers are natural and appropriate to men who were pursuing the same career at the same date . |
| 14 | The figures are different to the perception of those not incontinent who were asked the same question : 71% ( 2564 ) thought that the condition would have a great deal or fair amount of effect on their lifestyle and only 20% ( 692 ) not much or none at all . |
| 15 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 16 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 17 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 18 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 19 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |
| 20 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 21 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 22 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |
| 23 | At every level the lines of communication were with the central authority , not with the official who was doing the same job in the adjacent district . |
| 24 | The Israelis were furious at the attack on their colonel who was doing the same job as British soldiers in Ulster , they said . |
| 25 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 26 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 27 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 28 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 29 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 30 | As volunteers for the day we were accorded the same privilege . |