Example sentences of "had [verb] [adv] [art] same [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Julius 's dark brown eyes held an odd gleam of triumph , as if he had realised exactly the same thing .
2 He asked if I was a friend of the other young chap who had made exactly the same enquiry of him ten days ago . ’
3 A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point .
4 They had used exactly the same methodology as that employed to reach the results at Dounreay and Sellafield .
5 As she was about to leave the building she exchanged greetings with the portiera who handed her a letter which had arrived earlier the same day .
6 He says he was a little bit fed up becausehe had to plough up the same strip of the field several times for the film crew .
7 It had entailed much the same fuss and anger as the now-and-then Sunday dinners : Rachaela recruited to peel vegetables , make crosses on the thousands of sprouts .
8 The Central African Federation , embracing the Rhodesias and Nyasaland , had broken up under African nationalist pressures at the end of 1960 ; the West Indies Federation had gone much the same way during 1961 ; and South Africa had become a republic and left the Commonwealth that year .
9 However , another fisherman later claimed that he had dredged up the same body a few months earlier and , in the process of trying to recover it , the head had come off in his hands .
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