Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | But every little detail seemed crucial and it was something I struggled with all the way through , but knowing that Cathy , Joan and I were all on the same wavelength and felt the same level of commitment was a great relief . |
| 2 | As soon as I realised they thought I was knackered from the same route they had just walked , I was speechless with indignation . |
| 3 | When you came to get your your contract with er te te te and you were all in the same c contract , was that because you got together as a union , or whether you got t together as the worker ? |
| 4 | You were interested in the same thing . |
| 5 | Some like Sunday long ago , the child Simon had crept up to his Indian step-grandmother when she was asleep in the same wheelchair and thrown a blanket over her , shouting that she was a canary in a cage . |
| 6 | There 's quite a few around us because then we was not going onto a council estate from the one room , and we were all in the same boat together . |
| 7 | In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place . |
| 8 | Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind . |
| 9 | They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives . |
| 10 | Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways . |
| 11 | Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place . |
| 12 | Many natural foods we have happily consumed for centuries would never be allowed to be sold in the shops today if they were subject to the same tests as modern drugs and edible substances . |
| 13 | I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion . |
| 14 | But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night . |
| 15 | ‘ I thought you and he were interested in the same things . ’ |
| 16 | From Iran turquoise was carried as far afield as west Caucasia , where it occurred in the Maikop barrow in the Kuban , and north Mesopotamia , where it was present in the same tomb at Tepe Gawra as lapis lazuli . |
| 17 | She subsided wordlessly , wondering ironically how many times it was possible for the same heart to break before there was nothing left of it . |
| 18 | And although it was customary for the same actor to double as Mr Darling and Captain Hook the way St Ives played them there seemed little difference between the two — he romped in the nursery and he sky-larked aboard the Jolly Roger . |
| 19 | When they died it was more of the same . |
| 20 | At the hospital , it was more of the same . |
| 21 | He was involved in the same heavy round of duties as soon as he returned to London , however , and honorary positions were becoming increasingly a burden . |
| 22 | He was disappointed in the same year when his application for the chair of botany at London University was unsuccessful . |
| 23 | He was proud that the invisible spirit animating the slight frame had dared to conceive the intended deed as his duty ; but he was afraid at the same time that he would lack the courage to endure the pain and carry it through . |