Example sentences of "they had [vb pp] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Tiverton in 1809 they had claimed they had received the same rate for 300 years ! |
| 2 | Then , like a shoal of fish moving within a net , Rose and the girls started to clear the table , to brush away crumbs , to wash , to dry , to return each thing to its own place , all done with a muted energy ; whispers , jokes , little scolding asides — ‘ No , that goes in the other place ’ or reminisce how they had made the same mistake before in order to soften any harshness in the scold , bending low in apologetic laughter . |
| 3 | Over the years they had attended the same victuallers ' functions , and on every occasion Harcourt had kept very much to his own table . |
| 4 | Perhaps they had attended the same college : the college whose colours were cerise and silver . |
| 5 | None of the pupils seemed to guess that they had heard the same speaker more than once . |
| 6 | The two men exchanged experiences and found that they had heard the same noises of heavy breathing and the kick on the door . |
| 7 | They had conducted the same argument , at intervals , since the days after they had realised that they were isolated on an alien world . |
| 8 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |
| 9 | If they had polled the same plurality as they commanded in 1987 , there would have been no overall party majority . |