Example sentences of "[vb past] been the same " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd covered her over with a coat and taken her few possessions inside , and she 'd slept on ; she 'd been the same way for the last couple of hours of the journey , ever since they 'd made their final stop at a twenty-four hour garage so that he could fill the Zodiac 's tank and buy some tape for a running repair to the headlamp that he 'd broken when , lights doused to escape notice , he 'd clipped the corner of the garage block on their way out of the parking area . |
| 2 | Michael , I 've had to work very , very exact my lad and these things I 'd got the sliding gages and put them on and they 'd been the same at the front as they have at the back and that 's the thickness as well . |
| 3 | They had three hundred and seventy three live children between them and on average they should of had twenty seven children with birth defects if they 'd been the same as the rest of the population , the non-criminal , non-prison erm erm erm non-prison population . |
| 4 | It had been the same sum for years . |
| 5 | It had been the same after their school days . |
| 6 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 7 | It had been the same over the Christmas decorations . |
| 8 | And the physical symptoms had been the same ; a raging thirst , her body parched and shrivelled , her mouth dry and sour as if infected with her own breath . |
| 9 | No one in her family had been the same since Anthony 's funeral . |
| 10 | It had been the same for him and Nellie when James , their eldest son , was killed in France . |
| 11 | If its percentage of second votes had been the same as the overall percentage of the constituency votes it then received , it would in 1983 have been guaranteed 165 seats instead of the 23 it actually won , and 147 instead of 22 in 1987 . |
| 12 | His mother , whatever her faults — and they were legion — had been the same in the housewifely stakes . |
| 13 | Dan had been the same . |
| 14 | On every Sunday previously the pattern had been the same . |
| 15 | It had been the same every day since the storm . |
| 16 | It had been the same at the airport and I had thought then that perhaps he half expected Iris Sunderby to materialise out of the crowd . |
| 17 | It is certainly fortunate for us that the numbers are unequal because , if they had been the same , nearly all the quarks and antiquarks would have annihilated each other in the early universe and left a universe filled with radiation but hardly any matter . |
| 18 | It had been the same at school , when Davies had shoved him against the wall to see what he would do . |
| 19 | The polished wood floor , the scattered rugs , the furniture , it looked as if it had been the same for years , yet Kate could see the newness of the sofas , the curtains . |
| 20 | It had been the same with Road Works Ahead on the Long Drive . |
| 21 | It had been the same at university . |
| 22 | In both crimes , the person who had suffered by far the most had been the same man , Kemp . |
| 23 | If Rose 's experience had been the same , he thought kindly , she would need one of his ribs to stiffen her . |