Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] the same [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And when she 'd got the same blank response to two further letters she 'd sent him , Laura had sorrowfully realised that her marriage was indeed at an end .
2 She might be but er she 'd got the same red skirt on as she had she were wearing when we were there !
3 Same age as Francesca , and had attended the same good North London all-girls ' grammar school , for entry to which aspiring parents would have been prepared to pay blood-money had there been anyone in the austere intellectual governing body and teaching staff who would have taken it .
4 Romaine ( 1978b ) has cited the case in Edinburgh of two locally born upper-middle-class speakers who had attended the same private school but spoke with quite different accents .
5 READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did .
6 His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression .
7 On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get .
8 It seemed to the Court that the sentencer had used the same mitigating factors twice over ; once to reduce the starting point , and then to justify a further reduction .
9 Enhanced , too , by the knowledge that this story of the legions had reached the same evolutionary culmination not once but twice .
10 A woman present asked if Elizabeth were my sister , and at one time I wished she had been — but better not , for she would have lost an adored and incalculable mother and gained a dreadfully unhappy home ; and it would be a pity if we had shared the same literary material .
11 Even in its golden age as a theatre , its morning aspect had imparted the same momentary shock of disillusionment — as a tousled , unpowdered woman to her lover of the night before .
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