Example sentences of "[pron] had [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course , I had reached the same conclusions but he was always better at presenting the facts . |
| 2 | ‘ I had thought the same thing . |
| 3 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 4 | But they reckon when they did obviously it 's a set that probably someone had to say the same thing doing or the same person went through so many functions and it was worked using different ways of saying . |
| 5 | She had asked the same thing following the last two births , Hubert 's and Robin 's . |
| 6 | For both occasions she had worn the same hat — an uncompromising chenille turban ; Helen had disposed of it a month ago with the rest of her things and , as she looked at the photographs , felt again the curious dry but slimy touch of it . |
| 7 | He looked at Nell , and saw that she had reached the same conclusion . |
| 8 | Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey . |
| 9 | Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) . |
| 10 | In relation to PC Cherry , who had to wait the same period before being summonsed , Lord Justice Watkins said the delay after April 1987 , when there was ample evidence to sustain a prima facie case against him , was ‘ undoubtedly extreme ’ . |
| 11 | Winter and Smith , who had faced the same manslaughter charge and a joint arson charge , were cleared on Tuesday . |
| 12 | The play , written by André Birabeau and set in the Paris of 1919 , brought praise for the performances of Crawford and his co-star , nineteen-year-old Sarah Long , who had played the same role a year earlier when a different production was staged in Brighton and London . |
| 13 | So , on 12 September 1971 , at National General Pictures ' international conference for foreign film distributors in Hollywood , Dustin signed to become a partner , following Steve McQueen , who had joined the same year . |
| 14 | They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times . |
| 15 | Admittedly , Peak District was following in the wake of Star Player , who had won the same Beverley event last season , but it is most unlikely that this fully-exposed six-year-old — hard fit from two wins in all-weather hurdles — will ever aspire to the achievements of Star Player , who went on to win three other races , including the Chester Cup . |
| 16 | Eleven-year-old Tildey Lockyer from Liphook proved her superior skills when handling golden retriever Toby , and in the gundog class , Chris Melling beat his father , who had entered the same class with the same dog ! |
| 17 | He was quoting Aristotle , who had drawn the same conclusion three centuries before , and Plato 's view of the poet as one possessed by a ‘ divine madness ’ . |
| 18 | Then they needed the special consolation or encouragement of the substitute family at Howard ; the camaraderie of the other single girls , or the understanding of families who had shared the same kind of sadness . |
| 19 | This feeling was shared by his Prussian and Habsburg colleagues , who had cherished the same hopes . |
| 20 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 21 | ‘ If you had asked the same plumber three times to fix a leak , and , every time he has been , he has pottered around a bit and he has gone away , telling you he has fixed it and there you are standing in the kitchen up to your waist in water , are you going to call the same plumber to fix it again ? ’ he asked . |
| 22 | Indeed , I wondered if we had attended the same event . |
| 23 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 24 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 25 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 26 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 27 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 28 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 29 | They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world . |
| 30 | Whatever divided them , they had to share the same planet ; and this dictated a ‘ constructive dialogue , a search for solutions to key international problems , for areas of agreement ’ . |