Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [vb pp] [prep] the same " in BNC.
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1 | And if two actresses can survive having been cast in the same part and still go on to be friends , they can survive anything . |
2 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
3 | The cap and bonnet had been a feature of grave-clothes since the 1630s , the under-shirt having been introduced at the same time . |
4 | He held her in his arms , still and warm , and after a while in that darkness he felt as though he held nothing at all ; it was like when a limb , having been left in the same position for too long a time , somehow loses all reference to the body , and for those instants before some willed movement the very location and attitude of that arm or leg is quite unknown . |
5 | Of course , it is more complex than that because allowance has to be made for convergent evolution , which is the acquisition of common characteristics by virtue of having been subjected to the same selection pressures , rather than because of sharing a common ancestor . |
6 | From that group , George Chinnery 's portrait of two unidentified boys with a pony ( lot 66 , est. £50,000–80,000 ) reached £35,000 , having been purchased in the same rooms in 1989 for £60,000 . |