Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [art] same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only about a month earlier , I had been told the same story ( of the landing ) by a friend . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been thinking the same thing . |
| 3 | I 've been using the same box for several years now . |
| 4 | Then a guy in Denver called up and told me that I should go to a plumbing supply place and try a piece of pipe , because that way you can find one that fits your finger , and I 've been using the same slide ever since 1967 , I believe . ’ |
| 5 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 6 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 7 | We 've been saying the same thing for the last three years and I 've got the minutes here to prove it . |
| 8 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 9 | Dear doctor , we have noticed that as a result of a press article , copy enclosed , that there 's been concern stressed by a number of general practitioners with regards the slowness of the social services controlled community care programme as an association on behalf of our residential and nursing home members we have been stating the same fact to social services who have basically denied the existence of any problem , although we hope that in the long term the social services will be able refine their system to be more efficient , as an interim measure we are offering you a direct line service . |
| 10 | We , myself and Bill , although we have been doing the same thing for more than 20 years , could not really work together . |
| 11 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 12 | Blacks would have been better off now if , after being shipped to America in chains , they had been allowed the same freedom to prosper as willing immigrants were . |
| 13 | For years they have been receiving the same information in both printout and statement form — the Bank will benefit to the tune of £10,000 in tangible savings and £71,000 in productivity savings per annum . |
| 14 | It seems to have got stuck and it has been playing the same bit over and over . |
| 15 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 16 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 17 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 18 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |