Example sentences of "[noun prp] had [verb] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David had said the same sort of thing , thought Juliet , and a deep feeling of sadness washed over her . |
| 2 | Edward had made the same objection . |
| 3 | His friend , Helen Woodruff had admitted the same charge , and already been banned from keeping dogs for 7 years . |
| 4 | Ronni shook her head at Guido , remembering how Silvia had said the same thing to her . |
| 5 | Councillor Bellamy had asked the same question , Carolyn recalled . |
| 6 | Defries had had the same idea . |
| 7 | Twenty years earlier , R. A. Butler had shared the same fate , recalling the ‘ blood curdling demands ’ made annually at the Conservative Party Conference for the restoration of corporal punishment which had ‘ quite clouded ’ his time as Chairman of the Party . |
| 8 | As soon as he 'd switched the light off , Zeno had taken the same route through the yard as Sophie had done a little earlier . |
| 9 | If Neil Kinnock had won the same level of support from manual workers and their families as Harold Wilson achieved in the 1960s , he would be in Downing Street today . |
| 10 | I was interested to read in a Northern Ireland newspaper today that the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Tuam had considered the same proposal . |
| 11 | ( To be frank , Alistair had had the same fantasy the previous Friday , at which time , presumably , Offensive from Quasar 13 was still being booted round the floor of the sub post office ) . |
| 12 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 13 | Ven had done the same thing yesterday . |
| 14 | C'zinsit had presented the same argument every time the topic was mentioned . |
| 15 | As far back as 1904 Winston Churchill had foreseen the same change when he predicted the tariff reformers ' coming takeover of the party . |
| 16 | The irony of the position described by my hon. Friend the Member for Makerfield ( Mr. McCartney ) is that , if Wigan had received the same amount in grant as was received by Wandsworth and Westminster in the year in which it was capped , it would not have had to levy a tax at all ; indeed , it might have been able to give money back from the previous year 's levy . |
| 17 | Centuries earlier the Bhagavad Gita had noted the same difficulty : " Self-conceited , haughty , full of pride and arrogance of wealth , they do acts of religious worship in name alone . " |
| 18 | ‘ Did anyone know that Mowbray had received the same warning as Sir Ralph ? ’ |
| 19 | So if Luke had contracted the same strain it might explain why he could n't phone her — |
| 20 | Dr. Hicks of Baldock had given the same opinion ‘ in words of less meaning ’ , and Gibbon of Bedford had not felt qualified to give any opinion at all . |
| 21 | Dexter had encountered the same expression many years before in his teens . |
| 22 | ‘ There was a feeling of disappointment that we were held to a draw in Bruges and the atmosphere in the dressing room at the Olympiastadion only lifted after we heard that Marseille had suffered the same result against CSKA , ’ said McCall . |