Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] the same [noun] [coord] " in BNC.

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1 My story is similar to Annie 's in that I made the same mistake and thought of my granddaughter as a substitute child .
2 Two days later I met the same lady and her sari had been stolen in the middle of the night .
3 What with those tutors , hers is English English , her friends ’ English ; she did the same things and made the same jokes and had the qualities they admired — the post-Edwardians , the young new Georgians of her set , her sets — dash , courage , brilliance , intellectual freedom .
4 She had the same quietness and serenity his Renée had had .
5 A change of appearance was like hanging a net over a mirror , she had the same eyes but consoled herself by looking at herself differently .
6 We had the same rights and opportunities as the Americans .
7 Freames and Pitts Mills were in close proximity to one another and this , coupled with the fact that at various times they shared the same tenants and were put to similar uses , has caused a certain amount of confusion .
8 He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features .
9 They shared the same paynote and were self-selected .
10 They shared the same cigarette and frolicked in the pool .
11 Staff were separated less and less from pupils ; they used the same library and the same resource centres .
12 They wore the same green and white of malai children all over that archipelagic state .
13 Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters .
14 It bore the same postmark and was again disguised as a video .
15 Count 2 was in identical terms in that it alleged the same offence but it involved a cheque for £116,250 obtained on or about 23 March 1988 .
16 He did n't bring a sample home of that cos he , he brought the same design but in a different colour , but it was more greeny
17 comes back and says when the teacher come , the teacher was there this time , urgh the showers are on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and then they all start chanting Geoffrey switched the showers on , Geoffrey switched the showers on and er , loads of them , not just him , a load of them did it , and he , he started to cry , and then that was it then were n't it , ooh tiny tears , tiny tears , ooh poofter , poofter , crying and all that I mean he had a right day with it , so he goes to school this morning in Geography and the every body in the class , the girls and every body were going tiny tears , tiny tears , and he said I just ignored it today he says I just took no notice he says , but they 're all going , how 's your tears Geoffrey , are we going to cry again today , he says and they were trying to get me to cry today he says , but I just took no notice and Stuart kept going like this Geoff and he says I just went so he , he did the same back and then he went Geoff and Geoffrey just went , I mean what you do ? ,
18 Joyce added that he had been informed at Galway , ‘ where I was stationed ’ , that he possessed the same rights and privileges as if ‘ of natural British birth ’ .
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