Example sentences of "have [verb] [art] same [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A family which has run the same pub for two hundred and fifty years is holding a week of celebrations … |
| 2 | The individuals may function well in different compartments , and while they may have inhabited the same house for 30 years , believing they are together , they may , in fact , not be together as far as their hopes and expectations go , so it is terribly important that they voice these things to their partners . |
| 3 | It eventually emerged , after dogged questioning in parliament , that the PSA would have done the same job for £1,500 . |
| 4 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 5 | He was disgusted by Pete , but they would have to share the same space for years . |
| 6 | In 1899 the London , Chatham and Dover and the South Eastern Railways were brought under the operational control of a joint managing committee and Sykes was appointed consulting electrical engineer to the new organization , in which capacity he continued until his death , having served the same railway for fifty-four years . |
| 7 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 8 | got first which I 'll get a different trophy from last year cos I 've got the same trophy for two years . |
| 9 | By 1984 , he had performed the same task for showbiz mainstreamers like Robert Goulet , Neil Sedaka and Tina Turner , and landed a job as second host on a short-lived talk show . |
| 10 | I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for . |
| 11 | I 've had the same look for the last 7–8 years and during that time I 've put on some weight . |
| 12 | I think people should stick with what suits them , even if they 've had the same thing for years . |
| 13 | Now that idea was to get everybody together and erm because there have been certain members of the staff which have n't been looked at for a period of time they 've escaped the net as it were in the last couple of times and it seems that we 've had the same guys for the last three years and some have erm |
| 14 | I 've used the same numbers for years |
| 15 | ‘ He is my Uncle ; we 've shared the same house for twenty years and I wanted to be with him . |
| 16 | 13–6–1866 They appointed the first Sabbath in August for the dispensation of the Lord 's Supper and remonstrated with the Kirk Session in Kilmeny who had chosen the same day for their celebration . |
| 17 | For Europe , the nineteenth century was the great time when languages were identified and codified in single forms , minority languages in part eliminated , consciously national literatures and musics invented , and the territory mapped ( appropriately described as a ‘ father ’ or ‘ mother ’ land , even though very few peoples have occupied the same territory for more than a thousand years ) . |
| 18 | So I have written the same column for 15 years . ’ |
| 19 | W. Lancaster 's 13/0 stainless steel cutlery : some customers have used the same set for 20 years |
| 20 | He 's got the same gift for furnishing as your Basil . |
| 21 | What 's more , if you have to buy the same machine for more money elsewhere , you can also claim the difference in price from the original supplier . |
| 22 | But you should cast to the swim using a silhouette marker on the horizon , thus giving you practice for when you have to use the same silhouette for guidance in darkness . |
| 23 | Not many industrial sites can say that they have serviced the same industry for over 100 years . |
| 24 | Today 's big two have kept the same names for 19 years , and the right-of-centre one has unprecedentedly changed leaders without breaking up . |