Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 2 | And I was born the same day . |
| 3 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking the same thing , ’ David said calmly . |
| 5 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 6 | But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then . |
| 7 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 8 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 9 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 10 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 11 | as if she were putting the same reel of film back in the projector , she ran through the whole scene once again : she is speaking to the visitor , Paul is watching them with astonishment , and the guest is saying : ‘ In your next life , do you want to stay together or never meet again ? ’ |
| 12 | As I understand it , you were continuing the same metaphor when you told me that you wanted me to be a kind of groundsman . |
| 13 | Mind you , if you were going the same way as he wanted go , and he was going the way you wanted to go |
| 14 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 15 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 16 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |
| 17 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 18 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 19 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |
| 20 | I always felt an affinity with Donna , I thought it was because we were born the same day — ’ |
| 21 | I asked , not certain we were discussing the same property . |
| 22 | We were taking the same course module , ‘ marketing and statistics ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ When we were messing around last year , we were playing the same songs to the same music biz people , ’ asserts softly-spoken guitarist Bernard Butler , softly . |
| 24 | Now what 's happened , what would happen if we were to follow the same type of line there would be that the airfield would stay open as if needed a small commuter airfield . |
| 25 | If , for example , we were to find the same results in the Social Attitudes Survey in the year 2006 , we could assume that these results are conditional upon age . |
| 26 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 27 | As volunteers for the day we were accorded the same privilege . |
| 28 | However , since tests are always used by different people in different settings , it is also necessary to know something about the extent to which the same tester may achieve stable scores , when the test is given to the same person on different occasions , or the extent to which the scores from different testers would be comparable if they were to test the same individual . |
| 29 | She and Charles worked hard and , despite the fact that they were pursuing the same course , without rivalry . |
| 30 | They should have been , as they were given the same rations as a British farm labourer . |