Example sentences of "it [was/were] [adv] the same [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't the same story but it was a story about seals . |
| 2 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 3 | It was n't the same voice . |
| 4 | The parties went on at lartington Hall but it was n't the same place after the death of Mr Field . |
| 5 | However serious the immediate crisis in 1958 might have been , it was not the same kind of international and societal breakdown that had taken place in 1940 . |
| 6 | I saw that she still wore an engagement ring , but she told me very quickly that her fiancé had been a bomber pilot and he was dead , and it was not the same man she had been engaged to when she joined up . |
| 7 | It was also the same day and night and throughout the year , even though the earth was rotating on its axis and orbiting around the sun . |
| 8 | And yet in many respects it was just the same kind of Christmas that she and her family had always known back home in Scotland . |
| 9 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 10 | It was just the same thing all over again , except that this time it took twice as long because of the interpreter . |
| 11 | It was unmistakably the same music as before , though it was a brand new cassette . |
| 12 | It was unmistakably the same girl as in the photographs ; especially that on the cabinet of curiosa . |
| 13 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 14 | It was much the same story at the Foreign Office . |
| 15 | It was much the same situation as with the ship attack . |
| 16 | At least it was recognisably the same track and the same inn I came to . |
| 17 | I hope that the hon. Member for Fife , Central ( Mr. McLeish ) will understand that I do not intend to follow what he said in his long speech — it was almost the same length as his speech in our previous debate on the subject — or his wide range of criticisms of the Government 's policy . |
| 18 | With about 20,000 inhabitants , it was roughly the same size as these two English towns , and was just as provincial and bourgeois in character , but its people really knew how to live . |
| 19 | It was always the same story so I said ter meself , ‘ Billy , ’ I said , ‘ yer wastin' yer time even bovverin' ter fink about it . |
| 20 | It was always the same shape and size , built , it seemed , solely for the transportation of cheese rolls . |
| 21 | Madame was our constant ; against the fact that she never changed her style or her outfit ( it was always the same dress , every night ) you could measure the changes in all the other faces and bodies that you spent the night scrutinising — faces subtly altered by a recent bitterness or passion , a body sagging under the pressure of losing a partner or made alert by the proximity of a new or potential one . |
| 22 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |