Example sentences of "they were [adj] [prep] the same " in BNC.

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1 In Friedmann 's models , the galaxies are all moving directly away from each other-so it is not surprising that at some time in the past they were all at the same place .
2 Where the rights in question are spelt out , they are often lumped together , as if they were all of the same kind .
3 They were all about the same age as my daughter Kate , and three were fighting for their lives .
4 Quite apart from the ones I killed ( and they were all about the same age I was when I murdered them ) I can think of at least three of our family who went to whatever they imagined their Maker was like in unusual ways .
5 Instead of a series of national financial systems linked by a few operators buying and selling credit across the exchanges , we now have a global system , in which national markets , physically separate , function as if they were all in the same place .
6 Many natural foods we have happily consumed for centuries would never be allowed to be sold in the shops today if they were subject to the same tests as modern drugs and edible substances .
7 I ca n't say whether this is true or not but I have been told , it was spoke about when I was a kid , that they never saw each other except if they were both of the same religion .
8 But the trouble was they were both at the same time after school where she was meant to be decorating the hall for the disco after school that night .
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