Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [prep] [art] same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 2 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 3 | He loved being in the same film as James Mason . |
| 4 | because Youth and Carniki I knew are in the same building , which is why we wanted to see you |
| 5 | Writers and the books they produced were of the same type , full of antiquarian information and the archaic vocabulary that went with it . |
| 6 | Tolonen had been of the same generation as the T'ang and they shared the same unspoken values . |
| 7 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 8 | In essence those statutory provisions had been to the same effect . |
| 9 | We knew that inside were climbers who had been on the same route , who had seen us , who had spoken to us . |
| 10 | Carey and Zeno had been on the same side once . |
| 11 | If they had been on the same side of the bed , he would have struck her . |
| 12 | He and Adam had been at the same school , though he was a bit older . |
| 13 | He was three years older than Adam and though they had been at the same school , Highgate , they had not been friends then . |
| 14 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 15 | Across the emptying room another hurt mind had been at the same moment of time glanced by unwanted evocations of shabby Forest sheep nudging together in a brick shelter on a high road through the trees . |
| 16 | Brian and I recounted the awful journey , but , of course , all the Yanks had been through the same ordeal . |
| 17 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 18 | I had been through the same sort of trouble on behalf of my husband , applying for full attendance allowance on March 3 . |
| 19 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 20 | The name unlocked Peter 's memory : Coleby , a farmer 's son , had been in the same year as Peter at Plumford Grammar School . |
| 21 | Relations between Lang and Salmond are not good at the best of times but , given that the SNP had been in the same lobby as the Government the night before , it might have been expected that Lang would have been at least polite . |
| 22 | Although the two firms are still expected to cement an agreement covering Hewlett-Packard taking a 20% stake in Taligent Inc , the Common Operating System Interface announcement is now likely to be toned down , with the participation of other firms that had been in the same swim , such as Santa Cruz Operation Inc and SunSoft Inc , looking increasingly unlikely by the day . |
| 23 | He could n't remember ever having spoken to Gazzer , even though they had been in the same school for five years . |
| 24 | They came from young and old , from friends and strangers , from church groups , and from families in Cleveland and Rochdale who had been in the same position themselves . |
| 25 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 26 | The children will not be back from their boarding school and it would have looked very odd if they had been in the same country and not together on his birthday . |
| 27 | Such is the speed of decline ( GNP in the first three months of 1991 was 8% lower than it had been in the same period of 1990 , imports were 45% lower ) that , if this plan fails , the next one may be either an economic state of emergency imposed under martial law , or a kaleidoscope of programmes started by republics after the Soviet Union breaks up . |
| 28 | It was Rufus 's younger brother Julius who had been in the same form as Adam , a rather dull , pompous boy , a sort of phoney intellectual , and they had never had much to do with one another . |
| 29 | She parted her lips to tell him about Dana , then closed them again as a desperate plea from her twin made itself known as clearly as if Dana had been in the same room . |
| 30 | I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time . |