Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] the same [noun] [subord] " in BNC.

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1 I was the same age as Mandy Smith , Bill Wyman 's ex-wife , when their affair started .
2 ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two .
3 She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me .
4 She was the same age as Amy — well , a year older , since her twenty-third birthday last month — and Amy 's life might already be over .
5 Although she called me ‘ boy ’ , she was the same age as me , but she seemed much older than me .
6 Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined .
7 They were the same price as the other ones the ones .
8 Although it was hardly conclusive proof they were the same kegs as those discovered by the vagrant , all the signs pointed to it being more than just a coincidence .
9 Ideas about the abnormality of disabled people that arise out of research based on adding together the particular psychological attributes of individual disabled people are then systematically misleading , since they fail to include ‘ social forces , structural features of society , institutional factors and so on ’ ( Lukes , 1973 , p. 122 ) in their explanations — in other words , because they treat disability as if it were the same thing as impairment .
10 As she looked at Millie rocking herself slightly like a little old woman getting a child to sleep , she though , If I were to tell her her mother has died , she would likely think it was the same way as her father had , whichever way that was , which was n't real dead .
11 But I would buy it if it was the same price as ordinary meat .
12 It was the same story as Archer had told but the sinister technique had varied .
13 It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long .
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 It was the same dream as before , only this time Frankie had entered the room with his father 's long-handled axe held high above his head .
16 It was the same room where Blanche had sat and talked to Tatyana Nowak so many weeks ago .
17 It was the same feeling as that experienced when standing at the edge of an enormous drop and the desire to jump seems overpowering .
18 And why I went there to buy them , was because it was the same climate as , and the trees , there was no setback in the plants do you see , they were starting growing straight off cos they 'd been , was the same climate .
19 By a curious twist of fate it was the same house where Pease and George Stephenson worked during the plan and construction of the Stockton to Darlington railway .
20 It was the same area as the .
21 It is not unlikely that he was the same man as Barates the Palmyrene whose wife Regina was buried at South Shields ; a Catuvellaunian by birth , she was at first his slave before he freed and married her .
22 Suddenly Hari thought of the man who had escaped from the prison , he was the same sort as Emily Grenfell , no doubt before he fell from grace they would have met and socialized .
23 I had no doubt he was the same age as me — his round face was not particularly lined — but he had the hairline of a ninety-year-old .
24 He was the same age as old Jack Ryan and well remembered the smell of the pigs he brought with him into the pub of an evening .
25 He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own .
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