Example sentences of "[pron] was [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 2 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
| 3 | The process that was followed in preparing the , which was exactly the same process as being followed in previous years . |
| 4 | The second element was that I had just started working at the London School of Economics in October 1970 , which was exactly the same time as GLF started meeting there and LSE was in one of its periods of turmoil which involved me as someone working on the staff and excited me politically . |
| 5 | Hell was being without God , I thought , but I said nothing , just stared instead at the white wash of cabin light on the rushing water , and I wondered why some people could take cocaine and just walk away from it , while others ended up in hell , or in a peep-show which was probably the same thing . |
| 6 | So far he 'd got sympathetic countries to ‘ deplore ’ the malai act of aggression , which was not the same thing as condemning it , he said . |
| 7 | That , and trying to recruit him to the parents ' Association committee ( which was almost the same thing , as the most active women members were divorcees ) . |
| 8 | I have in front of me a copy of the data sheet produced by the company which makes it , which was incidentally the same company which made Opran , do you remember Opran which was withdrawn from the market , it 's just |
| 9 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 10 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 11 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 12 | On African issues he was more willing to listen to British views , helped by the fact that there was not the same fear of imminent communist penetration , nor were American interests so pressing . |
| 13 | In some ways this was easier in France where there was not the same interest in accents or parentage . |
| 14 | As Geoffrey Holmes has suggested , the demographic and economic underpinnings of stability were emerging in the second half of the seventeenth century — a stagnant population , years of agricul-tural plenty and a more buoyant economy meant that there was not the same pressure on resources and scarcity of food and employment which had caused such social distress and serious unrest in the late-Elizabethan and early-Stuart period . |
| 15 | It was explained to the women 's meeting which took this decision that " times had changed since the inauguration , that the cost of travel made meetings now almost impossible and that with the formation of local branches of the BDDA there was not the same need for the Auxiliary " . |
| 16 | In cities wherein only a handful of Jews lived , such as Edinburgh , Dundee or Perth , or in towns like Paisley or Kilmarnock , there was not the same atmosphere or vibrancy , excitement or interest . |
| 17 | But after nationalization , it was obvious , when he did put in an appearance or and that was very rare , there was n't the same palaver for his visit . |
| 18 | Because there was n't the same amount of work , this is just after the war I 'm talking about , and there was n't so many going then . |
| 19 | There was even the same smell of perfumed soap on his large hands . |
| 20 | There was even the same poker game going on in the back room , a game I could n't get in on but which I could glimpse every time the same barmaid took refills through . |
| 21 | In restaurants , Ken and Hugh Paddick had meals together where there was inevitably the same story of not being recognized and then having to move because too many people were pestering him . |
| 22 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 23 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 24 | It was n't the same voice . |
| 25 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |
| 26 | However serious the immediate crisis in 1958 might have been , it was not the same kind of international and societal breakdown that had taken place in 1940 . |
| 27 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 28 | It was also the same day and night and throughout the year , even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun . |
| 29 | And yet in many respects it was just the same kind of Christmas that she and her family had always known back home in Scotland . |
| 30 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |