Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [art] same " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 Perhaps by my middle-aged presence , the suggestion that Flora and I were the same age ?
2 I felt that he and I were the same sort of person , that there was something in my brain and heart , in my blood and bone , that connected me to him for ever .
3 Matt and I were the same age within a month but Alfred was two or three years older and Maurice quite a bit younger .
4 ‘ Well , actually , Sam said I was the same height as him now and he happened to have two .
5 I laughed and said I was the same when I was young .
6 I was the same age as Mandy Smith , Bill Wyman 's ex-wife , when their affair started .
7 Bill : I was the same but I still find that I 'm totally different from people who think of sex as just screwing .
8 You were like ice , and I was the same .
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 I have seen before and after your boasted strokes of policy ; and you were the same man , and would have been the same man to me and to yourself if you had never done them .
11 You were the same when Mum died , ’ she wailed .
12 But you were the same age , you might have known or heard things about her that adults would not know . ’
13 She looked pudgier and more ordinary without make-up , and he was n't entirely sure she was the same girl .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 She was the same size as me so I knew that her clothes would fit me .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Although she called me ‘ boy ’ , she was the same age as me , but she seemed much older than me .
21 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 .
22 Since she was the same age as Julius , she had to be in her mid-thirties , but her skin was smooth and unlined .
23 She was the same medium height too , with the lithe slenderness which had also characterised Isabelle .
24 Apart from being thinner , and less obviously female than Holly-jack , she was the same .
25 Not just because she was the same age , but because she had such a dreadful illness , just when she should be enjoying life .
26 Well our Susan when she was small she was the same .
27 Well Valerie was , she was the same were n't she ?
28 She was the same .
29 We had been childhood friends , not from deep affection , or even from admiration , but because we were the same sort of person and trusted one another .
30 We were the same age , but I was so much older than he .
  Next page