Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [vb pp] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had lived at the same place in Hampstead for over twenty years and so , as a sitting tenant , my rent was pretty cheap . |
| 2 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 3 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 4 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 5 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |
| 6 | Hailing each other , they found that they had come to the same conclusion : that so far as they could tell , in the gloom and confusion , the night was theirs , the camp completely broken up , the enemy scattered and leaderless and unlikely to rally now . |
| 7 | But he was in a sense revivified : his heart withstood the weakening effect of his illnesses much better than it had done in the same period of the previous year , and this was the first winter for some time when he had not been forced to seek treatment in a clinic . |
| 8 | The office looked as if it had fallen under the same spell of passing time as Dexter , and been unoccupied for weeks rather than hours — the motes of dust , the grime of London gently settling on files , videotapes and yellowing newspapers . |
| 9 | At Abbotsfield itself he had lived in the same house as Kate for nearly a month . |
| 10 | He estimated that at that time the local wind had become steady at 15 to 20 mph from 300°M , which was less than that on previous occasions when he had operated from the same field . |
| 11 | Seb rode to where Noah Plunkett still sat on his sheepskin ‘ throne ’ , giving the impression he had remained in the same place since the wedding party began . |
| 12 | She had written a receipt for the month 's rent for the garage , which he had proffered at the same time , and had received the book with a watery smile . |
| 13 | He had travelled aboard the same flight from Helsinki but in Economy Class , not an experience the Vice President of Information and Planning had enjoyed . |
| 14 | He had hit on the same theme in Jubilate Agno , B404 : |
| 15 | If he had run around the same time as Pocock ( 12 mins. 54 ) and Nash ( 12 mins. 59 ) , A.F.D. would have progressed comfortably into the top ten . |
| 16 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |
| 17 | I went to see Eric to tell him about this conversation and found that he had come to the same conclusion . |
| 18 | According to Castle gossip , he had behaved in the same way towards the Major 's predecessor . |
| 19 | He had worked for the same engineering firm for thirty years and he had always set great store by the company pension . |
| 20 | He had worked for the same firm for 16 years without working on a Sunday because of his objection to working on a Sunday and his wish to stay at home and then to go to church . |
| 21 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |