Example sentences of "[pers pn] was the [det] [noun] as " 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | But I would buy it if it was the same price as ordinary meat . |
| 9 | It was the same story as Archer had told but the sinister technique had varied . |
| 10 | It was the same kind as he had once been kept in for so long . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was the same feeling as that experienced when standing at the edge of an enormous drop and the desire to jump seems overpowering . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was the same area as the . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He was the same age as Syl , after all , and Syl wanted me to go with him for reasons of his own . |