Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 2 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 3 | The cooperative movement had been going through the same process , and every week was being confronted by the same forces which had compelled trade unionists to consolidate their forces . |
| 4 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 5 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
| 6 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |