Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [art] same [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 2 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 3 | We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another . |
| 4 | They were the same sort of things that I never got invited to again . |
| 5 | She looked at Peter , gravely answering the teasing of one of the lovers , and wondered if what she felt for him was the same quality of feeling that her parents had known and relied upon . |
| 6 | It was the same kind of dog as Caspar . |
| 7 | She said later that it was the same kind of relaxation the body feels after a really satisfying orgasm , every muscle relaxed and a marvellous sense of peace . |
| 8 | It was the same idea of the Empire as a patrimony , or an estate , the source of a livelihood for the mothercountry , to which Chamberlain had appealed : ‘ I know how our forefathers … bore themselves bravely in the titanic strife with Napoleon and came out victorious . |
| 9 | K. S. Karol points out that it was the same meeting of the Central Committee ( on 11 July ) which both endorsed Khrushchev 's announcement on 9 July of virtually unlimited economic aid to Cuba and approved his decision to withdraw all Soviet economic aid from China , and argues that the Cuban affair gave Khrushchevan unexpected internationalist alibi' for his anti-Maoist campaign ( Karol : 1971 , p. 204 ) . |
| 10 | Yet it was the same stretch of line where a two-year-old boy Mark Gilbert died just five months ago . |
| 11 | Yet it was the same stretch of line where a two-year-old boy Mark Gilbert died just five months ago . |
| 12 | It was the same sort of hysteria after the Hungerford massacre which persuaded a weak and inexperienced Home Secretary to give the police unfettered discretion to bully , terrorise and generally make a nuisance of themselves among law-abiding sportsmen . |
| 13 | It was the same sort of low church dissenting background which had produced many first generation medics like Kay and Wakley . |
| 14 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 15 | What worried me in looking at the Franks Report is that it was the same group of ministers on the same committee that were dealing with the big issues of war and peace in Middle Europe , with the procurement of nuclear weapons systems . |
| 16 | He was the same kind of man , too . |