Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm just the same size I 've always been , Mum . |
| 2 | ‘ But I 'm not the same person . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not the same person at all , ’ she insisted , and was very relieved to find that her voice sounded quite convincing . |
| 4 | I 'm not the same person who walked in here . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm the world champion I know , but I 'm still the same boy who raced his Vespa through the streets of Riolo . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm still the same person . |
| 7 | Damn it all , I 'm still the same man . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've matured as a cricketer through playing against better players but I 'm still the same bloke I was three or four years ago , ’ he said . |
| 9 | I was pleased we were talking about girls because I felt this was a subject where Andy 's two extra years did n't really count ; I was effectively the same age as him , and maybe I even knew more than he did because I mixed with girls every day and he only really knew his sister Clare . |
| 10 | Carter was an exception , to this and to everything else , but I used to feel that I was roughly the same age as the reigning American President . |
| 11 | You are n't the same person since you started taking those things , Clare . |
| 12 | You are not the same people who left that station |
| 13 | She 'd said that once you knew about things like frogs living in flowers , you were n't the same person . |
| 14 | ‘ She 's only the same age as Tommy but I think she 's already a good enough organist to start playing in church on Sundays . ’ |
| 15 | She is exactly the same age as Mrs Smith and came to Britain from Jamaica in 1957 as a 20-year old with her father ( a skilled motor mechanic who came to work on the London buses ) , her mother and her three brothers . |
| 16 | But she is still the same MP ; I do n't think she has moved an inch . ’ |
| 17 | She was n't the same Juliet Avery who had cycled to the hospital yesterday morning , blithe and carefree . |
| 18 | It was unbelievable that she was only the same age as many of them . |
| 19 | To him , she was still the same Alyssia , and heaven only knew why he had slept with her . |
| 20 | She was almost the same age as Julius , and had been with him for over ten years . |
| 21 | By comparison with a freighter , moored so close her black stern virtually hung over Isvik 's knife-edged bows , she looked very small , but viewing her from the standpoint of the maxi in which I had raced round the world , I guessed she was roughly the same size — at least twenty-five metres long with a good beam and what looked like a deep V-shaped hull . |
| 22 | We are still the same Russians and God is with us " . |
| 23 | We 're exactly the same age , and have similar backgrounds , so we 're on common ground from the start . |
| 24 | ‘ Lucky we 're nearly the same size . ’ |
| 25 | Clint : ‘ No , it 's not really a hangover , because we 're still the same people we were , really . |
| 26 | I was pretty certain of the approach I had to take and the fact that we 're virtually the same age was an advantage . |
| 27 | We 're almost the same age , I 'm just a few months older . |
| 28 | I understand that this was pretty common , quite common throughout British Railways , it took a few years to knit together you know , the nationalization and the fact that we were just the same railway after that . |
| 29 | ‘ We were just the same age and living in the same hole , ’ she said vaguely . |
| 30 | We were much the same age and more like sisters than cousins , really . ’ |