Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [was/were] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 2 | Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ? |
| 3 | Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger . |
| 4 | I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever . |
| 5 | I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them . |
| 6 | It was grown now , and a good bit taller than me , but when I was young and we were the same size it had been my static catapult defending the southerly approaches to the island . |
| 7 | But I looked today in erm cash and carry sport and they were the same price . |
| 8 | She had been very lonely before he arrived , with no one to talk to but her brother , Walter , and he was the most taciturn of men . |
| 9 | And … and it was the same man who … who took off my cap that . |
| 10 | And it was the same bloke each time . |
| 11 | But to the north , where the main Himalayan chain should have loomed , the curtain never parted , and it was the same story in the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ I know some of the other jocks here fancy her rotten , and it was the same story in Sydney , ’ Florian told Luke crudely , genuinely unaware of the variety of reactions he was eliciting . |
| 13 | It was the licensing system and licensing controls , after all , which helped to foster Britain 's peculiar ‘ brewery tie ’ and concentrate pub ownership in the hands of the brewers in the first place ; and it was the same system which connived at and partly encouraged the modern contagion of open-plan pub designs . |
| 14 | It was the Mau Mau conflict itself which forced the government to recognize the need to increase the productivity of the Kikuyu areas , and it was the same conflict which facilitated the means . |
| 15 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 16 | Gladstone saw nationalism in this light , and it was the same impulse which led , for example , Menotti Garibaldi , the great hero 's son , to try to raise an Italian legion to help Arabi Pasha in Egypt . |
| 17 | Charles Dutoit programmed it with the Montreal Symphony after he heard the disc , says Lin , ‘ and it was the same thing with Jeffrey Tate . |
| 18 | In her opening round of 67 on Thursday , the American made fours at each of the five long holes , and it was the same par fives which served her well yesterday . |
| 19 | But you were the same age , you might have known or heard things about her that adults would not know . ’ |
| 20 | But they were the same family the same Same people all through the years . |
| 21 | Marks had grown greyer , more hairy , more stringy in the years-since their last meeting but he was the same man , shrewd , cynical , and a cop to the bone . |
| 22 | He 's a year younger than Thomas but he was the same height |
| 23 | But it was the same friend who eventually led Jean to the dead man 's ‘ passion wagon ’ caravan . |
| 24 | But it was the same man … last night 's rescuer and her new temporary employer were one and the same … |
| 25 | The haughty face was older , harder , but it was the same man she had dreamed of as a very young teenager . |
| 26 | There was no flat black Córdoba hat , but it was the same man and Maggie felt an almost bitter rush of disappointment , so strong that it took her by surprise . |
| 27 | The glow through , er yes the paper was erm , was the same colour all the way through and er , and erm they had quite an impact , but of course they , would only last a year or two er and er they started a small factory in London and , erm call it Hula-Hoops I think er , I do n't know whether Hula-Hoops came from the lighting shades or the lighting shades from the Hula-Hoops , but it was the same process that made them both and er this was erm thin plastic tubing brightly coloured , er which was er cemented together into er |
| 28 | At the same time not only was there another G number but it was the same make of car as the last five G numbers had been and it was the same colour as three out of the last ten cars that had passed the other way . |
| 29 | She was dressed differently but it was the same face , the same hair , the same pleasant manner , and I said to her , well I put it to her , was she a twin ? |
| 30 | She would n't have been surprised to see her hair had all turned white ; but it was the same face looking back at her . |