Example sentences of "[noun prp] [was/were] the same " in BNC.

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1 They were not in fact the same thing — they were two separate things — and up until this point , it seemed like it was all one thing — that MainMan and David were the same — but it began to become apparent that they were n't .
2 He could n't keep pretending that Viola and Eleanor were the same person because Viola 's photo was signed .
3 All the same , every Saturday was the same , that thrill of excitement as the clock struck midnight , and her own breathless hope as Miguelito 's lively black eyes roved the audience , and sometimes rested on her as his liquid voice accompanied his virtuoso guitar playing …
4 He 's the one er a pa re well or a as you say , Branwell was the same , brought up , he was spoiled rotten !
5 Bobby Gould was the same sort of striker .
6 As a salute to a century of change , the route between London and Paignton was the same taken by the last of the broad gauge trains in 1892 .
7 The inhibitory effect of TPA was the same whether it was added 30 or 10 minutes before challenge with histamine at 20°C , but TPA was ineffective if added at the same time as histamine ( Fig 3 ) .
8 Erm , points out that Vaughn Williams was the same , er , that when he was in uniform , he he was scruffy .
9 I expect Dante was the same .
10 Les was the same off-stage as on a very funny man , ’ he said .
11 The elections in Ajdabiya and Kufra were the same kind of apparently inappropriate action ; the demands for autonomy , for independence of the state made by people of whom two thirds are employed by it , seem also to require some explanation .
12 I wondered if Leila was the same sort of woman as the other two . ’
13 No , no , I , I wa I was actually referring to the , the nature of , and the , whether if Shropshire was the same as the national .
14 The routine at Aubagne was the same every day ; we got up at 4.30 am , washed , shaved and paraded outside before a breakfast of coffee and bread in the main cookhouse ; then we cleaned the barrack rooms for an hour and paraded again at 7.30 am for the allocation of the day 's duties .
15 Helmut was the same .
16 British Leyland were the same
17 Francis was the same .
18 used to publish what areas were going to have power cuts , d' ya remember ? , you were in Bristol at the time , er Stuart was the same , they used to publish what area would be cut off and for what time and for how long and you knew you would get cut off , sort of ten o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon , usu , four or five hours at a time was n't it ?
19 Osgood was the same age as JTR and it is a pity that JTR did not continue northward from Gairloch and possibly meet this incredible man whose life and family chronicled in A Hundred Years in the Highlands gives such detailed insight into the times .
20 Yeah , well Joan was , Joan was the same and she 's a different girl altogether , she 's , she 's absolutely great .
21 Julian Hayman was the same age as Quinn and they had known each other when Quinn lived in London and worked for the underwriting firm specializing in protection and hostage release .
22 Jacqueline was the same .
23 Jerry was the same , their blood was lukewarm .
24 One woman , Helen Edwards , said she was horrified to discover that James was the same age as her son Mark .
25 And Ford was the same , you could have a run round in a , up and down you know in a sort of , in any of the latest models and oh there were some great commercial er pavilions in the , in the place really .
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