Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] the same [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arthur had obviously had the same idea . |
| 2 | I knew that Brian had already made the same decision , but , unlike the other two , he had no need to talk about it . |
| 3 | It sounded as though he had already said the same thing to a great many others . |
| 4 | Three years earlier , on the conclusion of an Anglo-Dutch peace treaty , it had already voted the same man a gold chain and a medal worth another 6,000 . |
| 5 | Speaking after a meeting with EC Finance Ministers in Luxembourg he envisaged that a smaller number of countries with low inflation ( France , West Germany , Belgium , Netherlands and Luxembourg ) would enter a European central banking system and that others who had not reached the same degree of economic convergence , or were not ready to give up sufficient sovereignty rights , would be invited to enter later . |
| 6 | Masklin had just asked the same question . |
| 7 | But he did not seem to notice that in the previous paragraph he had just used the same method for boosting the production of Johannes Raven . |
| 8 | He had always felt the same elation at the end of his long tours abroad . |
| 9 | Allan Lamb had probably seen the same selector : he hit sixty for Northants , their top scorer . |
| 10 | From the middle of the sixteenth century there had , however , been some confusion in England , mainly because most continental countries had adopted 1 January as the beginning of their year , and had also assumed the same year number . |
| 11 | For ten months after his father 's death he had unquestioningly taken the same train home , cooked a meal to be eaten at 7.30 ( as he had always done when his parents were alive ) , watched television , made a cup of tea at 9.30 ( as he had done when his parents were alive ) , and gone to bed . |
| 12 | She had felt much the same herself of late , restless , needing to work off that restlessness , only she had n't had the same opportunities to indulge herself . |
| 13 | Marsden explained that hospital social workers had negotiated their role in discharge in the 1970s , when the Freeman Hospital had been built — ‘ discharges do n't happen without social services input ’ — and had then spread the same working practices to Newcastle 's other two acute hospitals . |
| 14 | Mr. Watson had then telephoned the same consultant in the same hospital and had asked how long he would have to wait to be seen privately . |
| 15 | The Greek Orthodox Church had earlier reached the same conclusion . |
| 16 | Walter Hallstein , the West German representative at Messina and the first President of the EEC Commission , had earlier stressed the same point : ‘ We are not integrating economies , we are integrating politics . |
| 17 | Bigger , wider , grander in all its dimensions than the houses the Colcloughs and the Lords had built , since John-William had cleverly engaged the same architect and told him to produce something similar but much more splendid . |