Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if I was to ask the same question throughout industry today the answer would be very different . |
| 2 | And I was born the same day . |
| 3 | He himself would put the fear of God into the professors of Königsberg and Breslau ; I was to do the same thing in Danzig . |
| 4 | ‘ I was thinking the same thing , ’ David said calmly . |
| 5 | I was writing the same songs with the same approach but I thought they were all shit so I never brought them to J or I never tried to play them . |
| 6 | But when I got older , well I was getting the same pay as the regular men then . |
| 7 | But I was asked the same thing after Duncton Wood came out , I said I 'd never do another and I 've written five more . |
| 8 | Being sure I was on course did not convince me I was going the same way as everyone else . |
| 9 | Although I was doing the same kind of of erm work . |
| 10 | I had found myself staggering from one situation to the next … we decided then that I was doing the same thing wrong you see , and so we looked at the actual practice … |
| 11 | She heard the lady 's voice but she had no idea what she was saying until a sharpness in Miss Beard 's tone signified that she was repeating the same remark . |
| 12 | She was wearing the same sort of leather harness that the dragonriders had been wearing , but in her case it was much briefer . |
| 13 | She was born the same day in 1877 that Alexander Graham Bell launched his first telephone company and became a teacher when just 13 . |
| 14 | If she was running the same company for Virgin , should n't she have some shareholding in it ? |
| 15 | For a moment I thought she was going the same way as her father . |
| 16 | She was to have the same dream intermittently for the rest of her life . |
| 17 | I in the past th Granville mentioned these letters that used to work their way down from on high which might have just been a , a bit of a twinkle in somebody 's eye with no money at all to spend on physical work but even so it was given the same status within the R C E's organization of five or ten years ago a a as an investment item was , it was almost authorized . |
| 18 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 19 | To make matters worse a discount store had opened in the area and it was selling the same beds at £140 each . |
| 20 | On it was inscribed the same text in three different scripts — Egyptian hieroglyphic and demotic as well as , most importantly , Greek . |
| 21 | The spokesman said that 10 NPFL fighters had died in the Vahun incident , and that all bodies had been buried , but it was reported the same day that Taylor had ordered that the bodies should be exhumed . |
| 22 | It was reported the same day that the UN military commander in Somalia , Brig. -Gen . |
| 23 | ‘ Laurence Taylor died at Stubbylee of Asiatic Cholera , having arrived from Liverpool only on Saturday last ; he was interred the same day at the old Baptist Chapel . ’ |
| 24 | At his insistence he was seen the same day , and exhaustive examination failed to reveal any abnormality . |
| 25 | Once more , he was telling the same jokes before a show went on the air or was finally taped . |
| 26 | He glanced at Ho , and knew that he was thinking the same thing . |
| 27 | She was silent a moment , thoughtful , and knew he was thinking the same thing . |
| 28 | No doubt he was thinking the same thing . |
| 29 | Still staring up at him , she tried to discover if he was making the same connections as herself , but his face gave absolutely nothing away , and yet , when he 'd first opened the door , she 'd thought he 'd looked disappointed . |
| 30 | On a ship the size of the Ocean Empress it was surprisingly easy , especially when it seemed he was adopting the same principle . |