Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [be] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 So she is about the same age as her stepson .
2 So we were in the same group together for a couple of years . ’
3 Perhaps it was for the same reason that Mrs Parvis , so Gloria claimed , put crushed up egg-shells into powdered egg so that the lodgers would think they were eating something which they were n't .
4 So it was to the same mortuary as Jacob that the undertaker 's van took the two coffins .
5 Still you 're about the same height , and they 're obviously such good clothes . ’
6 Now I 'm in the same bracket as Maradona !
7 just now they were in the same place , like Wayne and the trucks , but sometime soon they 'd be miles apart .
8 Often they are at the same or higher levels .
9 In school you 'd be getting the looks and all that , but here everyone 's in the same boat .
10 ‘ And here we are at the same time of year — well , they tell us it 's the same time of year , ’ he said , sarcastically , ‘ — and what we 're expected to eat are knobbly things actually grown in dirt !
11 Yeah but like I 've still got more than well it 's about the same cos you 've got less at the top I think .
12 Of course , it 's always there , but the walls and towers appear to have moved when they were not being watched , or maybe they are in the same place , but the adventurers are n't seeing the same thing all the time .
13 Now at least they are in the same boat , and the balancing of the pronouns in the last four lines declares their equality : I have quoted extensively from that sonnet in order to give the full context for this Our : what they have in common is that they have sinned , each has betrayed the other .
14 Yet we are at the same time perturbed by more recent and present-day developments .
15 Erm actually it 's about the same , but it looks better in my accounts .
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