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

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1 As soon as he got home , the telephone was ringing and she told him the same thing many times .
2 An –easy conscience chafed him like his new , scratchy tweed suit , caused him the same persistent discomfort as the broken spring he was hatching out beneath his buttocks .
3 God knows why — I made him the same way I made the rest of you — but there it is .
4 The right hon. and learned Gentleman nodded when I asked him the same question earlier , but he has not said how he will ensure fairness between schools and therefore , no discrimination against students with special needs .
5 By now , though , he was tired of Barbados , particularly its narrowness of spirit ; they expressed their appreciation of his runs by refusing to allow him , as a black man , to practise at Kensington Oval , and he believed there were still those who resented his success and thought him the same ‘ bighead ’ as at school .
6 Eliot 's vision of the urbane savage was very different from Arnold 's , but gave him the same privileges as his Romantic predecessor .
7 But he could justify this because there were other Scots besides Elder , drawn from the ranks of the leading politicians , who gave him the same message .
8 He was then attacked by James , but gave him the same treatment .
9 After all , the chairman of a transport conglomerate which had tipped hundreds of thousands into party funds would not thank a prime minister who gave him the same reward as a Blackpool entertainer .
10 As soon as he entered the first field to be cut his mates up-ended him and gave him the same treatment which stopped only when he shouted ‘ Beer ! ’ .
11 I gave him the same answer I gave you . ’
12 The Sheriff asked me the same question and I gave him the same answer as I have you . ’
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