Example sentences of "[vb infin] had the same " in BNC.

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1 She could 've had the same thing free on the National Health !
2 Many set the odds on Rank achieving his ambitions very low indeed , seemingly believing that , as Eric Ambler was later to remark , ‘ a policy of selling British cars to America with their steering wheels on the right would have had the same chance of success . ’
3 If Shostakovich was writing now , he would n't have had the same material .
4 Certainly , an oil engine and clutch system would not have had the same degree of flexibility as a steam engine , even if a suitable engine had been available .
5 Even so , many succeeded in establishing a relationship similar to a heterosexual marriage , and Hanns Ebensten believes that ‘ had he not been a homosexual , John would have had the same occasional hours of despair and misery , and maybe had a succession of failing marriages and affairs .
6 Tom Cotter , the little fat station master who had gawked unashamedly at the beautiful girl on his platform , could still have had the same shirt on .
7 To have just lost and not been so dreadful might not have had the same impact .
8 ‘ Among them were rich aristocrats who would have had the same fine dental work with gold fillings seen in these so-called remains of the Imperial family .
9 Their attitude was part of an exaggerated respect for the English class system , and they did not seem to realize that an open-minded person like Horsley could easily have had the same sort of meeting at , for example , a CND conference .
10 All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did .
11 ‘ Chastity ’ may not have had the same social meaning for a working-class girl , accustomed to different courtship and marriage patterns , as for a middle-class young lady .
12 And major social reforms — the establishment of free trade unions or the redistribution of noble land — would have had the same effect .
13 Be careful about contemporary words that seem familiar but may not have had the same meaning or implication in the modern period .
14 ‘ He could have had the same yesterday . ’
15 He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato .
16 He should have had the same chance as them , Church or no Church . ’
17 This would not have had the same meaning as it has today for the term park originally meant land enclosed to keep beasts for hunting or ornamental purposes .
18 Ideally , all patients should have had the same number of follow up visits .
19 Yesterday Capt Roy Beaumont , Loganair 's operations director , said that although the plane involved was an ATP , the down draught could have had the same effect on any aircraft coming in to land .
20 ‘ A little thing could have set him on his way any time these past three years , and it would have had the same ending . ’
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