Example sentences of "[pron] was the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two . |
| 2 | I laughed and said I was the same when I was young . |
| 3 | I was the same age as Mandy Smith , Bill Wyman 's ex-wife , when their affair started . |
| 4 | Bill : I was the same but I still find that I 'm totally different from people who think of sex as just screwing . |
| 5 | You were like ice , and I was the same . |
| 6 | and then Brenda ran up to explain breathlessly that she did n't think the van would go under the low bridge , as her daddy 's — which was the same size — would n't . |
| 7 | The sun was still bright as we approached the Quigleys ' house but it did n't seem to have reached their road , which was the same as it ever was : dank and green and desperately quiet . |
| 8 | His two brothers both died with smallpox cos one was , they all three went to Wolverhampton Grammar School and they were a Wednesbury family and they died with the smallpox but I thought they were putting the youngest which was my grandfather for the best trai one was going in for law and the other was going in for medicine , and the youngest was go which was the same as engineering is today I suppose , and he went into the gun trade , and I can remember him , he was a grand old chap and er he used to come and bring the springs that he 'd made and to temper them he used to throw them in the kitchen fire , and they 'd die out and get them all out of the ashes in the morning , and he used to take his week 's work in his waistcoat pockets and his day out was to get on the tram at the Brown Lion , and go straight through Wednesbury and right through West Bromwich up to the Constitutional in Birmingham to Greeners or Wembley and Scotts and he 'd got these gun locks as he 'd made during the week in his waistcoat pockets . |
| 9 | If theirs was the same college attended by Clare Mallender , that might be explained by Dysart recommending it to her at her father 's request . |
| 10 | The problem Marx set himself was the same as that which other social scientists tried to confront : the nature and mechanics of the transition from a pre-capitalist to a capitalist society and its specific modes of operation and tendencies of future development . |
| 11 | She looked pudgier and more ordinary without make-up , and he was n't entirely sure she was the same girl . |
| 12 | She was the same age as Amy — well , a year older , since her twenty-third birthday last month — and Amy 's life might already be over . |
| 13 | It is highly likely that she was the same woman that Emma Southwick imagined was having a nip with Tiller in the back room during rehearsals way back in the St James 's Hall times . |
| 14 | The first — from 1952 to 1957 — was so undistinguished that it was difficult for filmgoers to believe that she was the same actress who returned to movies after five years on Broadway . |
| 15 | She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me . |
| 16 | This involved a teacher treating a pupil in a manner which suggested that he or she was the same sort of person as an older brother or sister who had either offended in some way or was being offered as a worthy model . |
| 17 | She was wearing a black and white sharkskin dress that did n't make you wonder whether she was the same shape the whole way down . |
| 18 | Although she called me ‘ boy ’ , she was the same age as me , but she seemed much older than me . |
| 19 | In spite of her bone-weariness , all of a sudden she was facing him squarely , for she was the same height and if anything , more strongly built . |
| 20 | Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined . |
| 21 | She was the same medium height too , with the lithe slenderness which had also characterised Isabelle . |
| 22 | Apart from being thinner , and less obviously female than Holly-jack , she was the same . |
| 23 | Not just because she was the same age , but because she had such a dreadful illness , just when she should be enjoying life . |
| 24 | Well our Susan when she was small she was the same . |
| 25 | Well Valerie was , she was the same were n't she ? |
| 26 | She was the same . |
| 27 | Each visitor receives a ‘ passport ’ bearing the story of an actual victim or survivor who was the same age and gender as the visitor . |
| 28 | With a lighter heart , she would tell Maisie of her other child , Cissie , who was now going on thirteen , a lovely girl who was the same forthright and delightful character as her mam before her . |
| 29 | Eric and I had to restrain him at times when he wanted to do something like throw little Paul into the water to see if he 'd float , or like when he wanted to fell a tree over the railway line that goes through Porteneil , but as a rule we got on surprisingly well , even though it rankled to see Eric , who was the same age as Blyth , obviously in fear of him . |
| 30 | Ten years ago , I met an attractive woman who was the same age as my mother . |