Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | I was looking for the same thing yesterday ! |
2 | I was listening to the same genial , slow voice with which the American gentleman had charmed many since his arrival and yet it now contained something unmistakably covert . |
3 | ‘ So obviously I was thinking along the same lines as him . |
4 | A twist to his lips , he added , ‘ I was thinking along the same lines myself when my father pre-empted me . ’ |
5 | Now this — Ruth Cohen and her stolen file , and I was filled with the same strange , tingling excitement . |
6 | I make this point after returning from a day 's walking near Ullswater when I was approached by a party of walkers who had followed me for some distance thinking that I was headed for the same destination . |
7 | I was tarred with the same brush , to a certain extent . |
8 | So if I saw the mountain , outlined by the rising sun at dawn , I could say to myself that though it was Saturday morning here what I was witnessing at the same moment was dawn on Friday , the day before . |
9 | Liz was asked to imagine how she would respond if she was faced with the same problems again . |
10 | Whenever Joanne completed a task requested by one or other parent without complaint she was rewarded from the same reward ‘ menu ’ . |
11 | Leila had not been at all pleased to find she was living under the same roof as Zambia Crevecoeur . |
12 | Oh yes , it 's in Scotland , you see , and whilst there , you see , every day er because a lady laughed at me and she said , she was staying in the same hotel and she said er I , I used to book up in advance of course but never took a chance . |
13 | she , she was baptised at the same time as I was , you know , er , the same day , Manchester assembly , that was nineteen seventy four seventy five no , seventy four , yeah |
14 | Although she could not afford to stay there , she certainly intended to give the impression that she was lodging under the same roof as the leaders of the Party . |
15 | And she was subjected to the same technique Courtney used to ensnare women he assaulted after offering them drugged wine . |
16 | As a great admirer of ‘ Laura Ashley ’ dresses , she often wore the long , British-made cotton dresses to Embassy functions — once she found she was clothed in the same fabric as a sofa — an embarrassment which she carried off with great panache . |
17 | Her picture of God ( which came from experiences in the past ) was so distorted that without realizing it she was believing a grotesque caricature of God which for sanity 's sake she was forced at the same time to doubt . |
18 | He was sure that she was animated by the same desire . |
19 | And now she was saying with the same delight , about someone else , ‘ Absolutely . ’ |
20 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
21 | But if they were to examine that bullet hole and find it was caused by the same sort of gun that killed her … ’ |
22 | In my case , I am pleased to say , it was regarded in the same light as full time training . |
23 | It was announced on the same day that " political committees " had been formed in the Occupied Territories . |
24 | It was announced at the same time that two others had been executed in the Sumatran town of Medan in October 1989 . |
25 | It was announced at the same time that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , would travel to Beijing to sign the agreement , making him the first Western head of government to visit China since the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in June 1989 . |
26 | It was made of the same material as the coat . |
27 | This series was so popular that it was repeated in the same year . |
28 | It was followed in the same year by the rather more successful Queen of Scots . |
29 | It was noted at the same time — though with rather less interest — that the lady Anne 's companion was leaving sanctuary . |
30 | This kitchen extension is an excellent example of how it should be done : it looks as if it was built at the same time as the rest of the house |