Example sentences of "[pron] was [vb pp] the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I was born the same day . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But someone was murdered the same day and that does matter . |
| 4 | Dissident middle-ranking army officers staged a coup attempt in April , which was foiled the same day after heavy fighting [ see p. 37367 ] . |
| 5 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |
| 6 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 7 | On it was inscribed the same text in three different scripts — Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic as well as , most importantly , Greek . |
| 8 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 9 | It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen . |
| 10 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 11 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |