Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] the same [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walter Brennan never gargled with methylated spirits , or wore the same ragged T-shirts for months on end , or slept in a cardboard cocoon in a condemned house , or bothered young women on the subway . |
| 2 | The pair became good friends and shared the same haughty view of their futures . |
| 3 | Afterwards he dipped his own thumb into the bowl and made the same yellow mark on Chola 's forehead . |
| 4 | They sounded the same and wore the same white overalls , but Mr Smith had cloven hands — like a hoof with wiry brown hair — sticking from the starched overall sleeves . |
| 5 | There had even been times when he 'd found himself imagining her with no clothes on at all — the way he had once seen Peggy Podmore — and felt the same keen desire well up in him . |
| 6 | Ann and Beth had married into farming families and had the same careworn faces and workworn hands as had his wife and mother . |
| 7 | I once saw Hyde too and had the same strong feelings of dislike for him as you did . |
| 8 | She was in the same year as Humber , and had the same brisk efficiency , but was much more friendly . |
| 9 | It was a bit summery for the weather , but had the same small waist as Xanthe 's tailored number , in a kind of light-green figured gauze over a satin underskirt , with a broad belt and wide lighter-coloured lapels , with a big perspex buckle like bottle glass . |