Example sentences of "[conj] it [vb past] the same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In this case , as the sales information was neither a trade secret nor could be regarded as so confidential that it needed the same protection as a trade secret , the appeal failed .
2 I found the red Transit easily enough , it was the only one in the street and it had the same number plate as yesterday .
3 That 's right , er and it had the same number
4 Effie 's fear had disappeared a little under his quiet comfort , and it had the same effect on McAllister .
5 He named his discovery ‘ eight months anxiety ’ and it gained the same status for psychologists that saying ‘ mama ’ or cutting the first tooth has for parents .
6 These findings offered important support for theoretical proposals about children 's acquisition of the meanings of more and less as well as of other adjective pairs ( e.g. , big/small , tall/short , wide/narrow ) , in that they appeared to show that children first learned the meaning of the unmarked term for a dimension ( e.g. , big , tall ) , and interpreted the marked ( negative ) member ( small , short ) of the pair as if it had the same meaning as the unmarked ( positive ) member ( see H. Clark , 1970 ; Clark , 1973a ) .
7 taking it cos it did the same thing .
8 It might have been a tail light going the other way but it stayed the same size .
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