Example sentences of "[vb past] have the same " in BNC.

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1 I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all .
2 The change in net debt , er worth referring worth mentioning minus three point three million that much worse would have been significantly lower thirty five million or so lower if we 'd had the same year end exchange rate as we did in nineteen ninety one .
3 The beautiful eyes seemed to have the same dark depths as those of her brother but they did not have his sharp , probing gaze .
4 Furthermore the resulting " socialist man " seemed to have the same needs as his capitalist counterpart for material goods , especially those based on energy and materially intensive technologies .
5 Dr Tim Bishop , for the ICRF in Leeds , added : ‘ We looked at dozens of case studies , from as far apart as America , Holland , Iceland , Germany , France , Sweden and the UK — in fact , almost all the known families with chromosome 17 linkage data and we were amazed to see that all of the families seemed to have the same genetic defect . ’
6 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
7 The chances of winning the two bets are at that point judged to have the same probability , given by the ratio of red to blue marbles .
8 There were two problems , the youngest children 's reading was n't good enough to manage the menu and most were too short to actually see over the tops of the containers on the heated cabinet to make their choice , because of this when they reached the counter they asked to have the same as the child in front making a nonsense of the notion of choice .
9 I refused to believe that he chanced to have the same name as the previous tenants of the cottage — unless he himself was the previous tenant , and had for some reason returned to Moila without wanting to be known ?
10 But whereas the year before the absence of yellowing was proof that Britain did not have the same forest decline as in Europe , its discovery did not show that Britain did have the same forest decline .
11 And yet Miles appeared to have the same complement of arms and legs as he did , the same disposition of eyes , nose and mouth .
12 They glared at each other across the table , two people in early middle age who had had the same quarrel in the same words many times .
13 Others had had the same idea .
14 In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said .
15 Nearly all of us had had the same sort of education and shared a common social background .
16 Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice .
17 I thought that maybe he had had the same idea as me only for a different reason .
18 Even earlier , in 1751 , he had had the same theme in mind when he began On the Immensity of the Supreme Being :
19 Perhaps if the rest of the writing had had the same approach we would have a worthy materials reference book .
20 Defries had had the same idea .
21 ( To be frank , Alistair had had the same fantasy the previous Friday , at which time , presumably , Offensive from Quasar 13 was still being booted round the floor of the sub post office ) .
22 I came home quite convinced that I 'd never met anyone since that I had had the same feeling for .
23 It was not difficult to detect that his government was anxious and , if this word could ever be used about the placid Sir Alec Douglas-Home , was passionately anxious to obtain an agreement , just as Harold Wilson previously had had the same anxiety .
24 ‘ Well , ’ said Sendei , ‘ it looked like just about everybody else had had the same idea .
25 As she did so , Caspar turned with her , and Fenella knew he had had the same idea .
26 ‘ It seemed as if quite a lot of people had had the same dream — or a similar one , at least — there were similar elements in all of them .
27 Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised .
28 Not willing to admit that she had had the same idea , Sophie said cautiously , ‘ Dawn was n't available to help him with the monkey .
29 On the other hand : she 'd fortunately made the right career choice and been encouraged by school and family at an early age , got a qualification ( chartered accountancy ) that proved a useful passport , and had had the same supportive bosses any man would expect to get .
30 The British were mistaken in supposing that they continued to have the same sovereign and therefore the same national identity vis-à-vis the outside world as the Canadians .
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